"Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers."

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?"

"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."

"O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!"

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods."

"Ia€?m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known."

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."

"Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?"