An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you…

Quote by Annie Dillard

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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a...

I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane...

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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for...

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke,...

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke,...