Orson Scott Card
Quotes
Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
You can't tell real from a rutabaga.
I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
“I've done my best, but the boy is unteachable. He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science.”
“In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.”
“He is unwilling to accept the idea that some things remain mysteries, comprehensible only to the mind of God. Ambiguity makes him saucy, and paradox causes open rebellion.”
“An obnoxious child.”
“What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?”
“It has problems, I admit.”
Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
