Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve. If they’re used that way, they can help us in our only real relationship with God.

“When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, “I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.”

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.