Saturday, January 20, 2018
Zoe Heller - The Believers
‘I see’, The rabbi smiled. ‘so he disapproves of the god in whom he doesn’t believe.’
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The Hebrew word about it, Yom’, which is usually translated as day, can also refer to an undefined period of time
I know I’m supposed to do this, but I can’t just yet
Her anger had become a part of her. It was a knotted thinket in her gut, two dense to be cut down and too deeply entrenched in the loamy soil of her disappointments to be uprooted.
How much simpler life must be when you believed that your grade school opinions had the status of knowledge
This was not about God at all: it was the expression of some school girlish masochism, some hysterical need for rules and restrictions, The pettier and more arduous, the better.
It was hard for me to believe that he is such a pedant
Perhaps believing was like poetry in this regard. It required a delicacy or subtlety of mind that she had yet to attain
Accept the truth from Whom ever gives it
God doesn’t need our perfect understanding even our perfect faith what he wants is our commitment, our actions.
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