# Quote — Stephen Donaldson, The Power That Preserves

> Abruptly Loerya joined the probing. “And if there is no Creator? Or if the creation is untended?”
>
> “Then who is there to reproach us? We provide the meaning of our own lives. If we serve the Land purely to the furthest limit of our abilities, what more can we ask of ourselves?”

- Author: [Stephen Donaldson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson.md)
- Book: [The Power That Preserves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves.md)
- Page: 48
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/abruptly-loerya-joined

## More from this book

> Do not be too quick to judge the makers of worlds. Will you ever write a story for which no character will have caused to reproach you?

p. 473 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/do-not-be-too.md)

> He smiled because he was alive.

p. 480 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/he-smiled-because.md)

> “I’ll tell you what it is. It’s a goddam miracle, that’s what it is.”
>
> “Come, now,” the older man murmured. “I don’t believe in miracles—neither do you.”

p. 479 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/ill-tell-you.md)