Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”
Interview in the Guardian in 2009. Nick Cave on the Death of Bunny Munroe. The Guardian Books Podcast, September 11, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/sep/10/nick-cave-bunny-munro
God and religion
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
Source: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Webpage Astronauta Marcos Pontes - Entrevistas http://marcospontes.com.br/$SETOR/MCP/OPINIOES/entrevistas.html
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 282
Paper Towns (2008)
“What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.”
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.... when stress reaches a certain intensity in the culture, only certain individuals feel called forth to become prophets while most do not. In any event, the prophet has emerged in a new cultural role, and his personality is liberated from the stress that called his response into being in the first place. Immune to the stress under which his brethren still suffer, he must appear to them supernatural.
