“Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine… The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

Quin Dexter of the Lightbringer Sect on faith
The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999), The Naked God (1999)

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