Sheri S. Tepper quotes - page 6

I am myself, though from moment to moment something else seems to be looking on. (Sheri S. Tepper)
They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all. View quote
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The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. View quote
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The real God, who may really exist, is outside all that, perhaps watching closely, perhaps merely asleep for a few trillion years while the experiment runs out. We - thee and me as individuals - will never know that God, though after a few trillion years, the universe as a whole may come to understand that God. View quote
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Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. View quote
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I will be a sham, but not a snob. View quote
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They're correct that a god picked out the material; they just have the wrong god doing it. View quote
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Ignorance perpetuates itself just as knowledge does. View quote
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Shutting down inquiry is evil. Causing pain purposefully for no reason is evil. Enjoying causing pain by shutting down inquiry is an absolute evil. View quote
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We are a race evolving in this Creation to serve the Maker of it. We act as temporary deities during the childhood of individual peoples and planets. View quote
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To my mind, the expression of divinity is in variety, and the more variable the creation, the more variable the creatures that surround us, botanical and zoological, the more chance we have to learn and to see into life itself, nature itself. (Sheri S. Tepper)
She knew ... everything. She had no words for what she knew. View quote
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Each race creates its own devils. View quote
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Each of you will find the fight that suites yourself and your being. View quote
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Any religion that says it knows the one and only truth is evil, because it limits knowledge. Any political body that says it owns the truth is evil. Same reason. View quote
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Long ago, the people of the world cried out for help. In the reaches of heaven their cry was heard, and a Visitor came in answer to it. View quote
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The world stopped. She was somewhere else, learning things she had no names for. View quote
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If creation is important to something or someone or is going to become important, then all subcreations of it are also important. Everything is important. There is nothing so unimportant you can ignore it or destroy it with complete impunity. Your senses are part of the "everything." View quote
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You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other. View quote
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Only by repudiating both devils and small gods will they ever know the Real One. View quote
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Watch bullies at school. See how they delight in causing pain. See how little is done to change them. Imagine them grown, elected, put into power. They do grow, they are elected, they are put into power. (Sheri S. Tepper)
We must be able to find out what really is.... It is not enough merely to tell stories about what exists. We must go out into the world again. The sign has come. Therefore, build ships! View quote
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The Real One sees only the pattern of what is, where it begins and where it comes to rest. The only prayer IT perceives is action. ... Only actions enter the pattern the Real One sees. What is. What was done. IT perceives neither intentions nor remorse. View quote
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Morgot and Myra would tell her there wasn't any reason to make promises or seek changes because the Great Mother didn't bargain. The deity didn't change her mind for women's convenience. Her way was immutable. As the temple servers said, "No sentimentality, no romance, no false hopes, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!”. View quote
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They were always telling me their way is the only way to go! View quote
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