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“I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.”
It’s hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?
“I miss destroying cities full of humans.” “I know what you mean,”
“Her name is Kashmir, which means soft and expensive.”
As Joshua embraced Mary, she said, “You’ve got to do something about this wine situation. Where’s the wine?”
I sighed, an exasperated sigh that I’d learned from my mother.
“I love bunnies. They toil not, neither do they bark. Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around. So it shall be written. Go ahead Biff, write it down.”
“Plague,” said Nathaniel. “Plague,” we all said, nodding. It happens.
if you hang a drunk guy over a camel and slosh him around for about four hours, then pretty much all the poisons will come out one end of him or the other.
“The foxes have their holes and birds have their nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
And so, cleansed and slung over a camel damply, Joshua did by moonlight come into Capernaum, where he would be welcomed as if it were his home.
“Onward,” Peter said, and onward we went, the big boat full of Joshua and Matthew and the eight faithless pieces of shit that were the rest of us.
“My name is Legion, for there are a bunch of us in here.”
Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt.
Why can’t we, for once, have blessed are the big powerful rich guys with swords?” “Because they don’t need us.”
Nobody’s perfect…. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him. ANONYMOUS
“Whoever of you is without sin, cast the first stone.” And he held out the stone to them. They gradually backed away.
“Get your doves. Get your sacrificial doves. Pure as the driven snow. Everybody needs one.”
then he slapped a dove vendor, ripped the top off his cage of birds, and released a cloud of doves into the sky.
“You’re forgiven,” said Joshua. Then he stood up.
was tempted to relieve him of his teeth.
“It is the will of the Son that you two go out together into this new world,” said the female angel.
I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, “What if Jesus had known kung fu?”
If you don’t know someone who is familiar with the Bible, just wait, someone will come to your door eventually. Keep extra copies of Lamb on hand so they can take one with them.
