Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore

The miracles Joshua performed were small and quiet, as miracles tend to be, once you get used to them.

Joshua taught us that we should not hate—a lesson that I was never able to master,

“Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?”

“When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat,” Gaspar would say, meaning that every bit of our being was to be in the moment, completely aware of the now, no past, no future, nothing dividing us from everything that

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren’t afraid.”

That’s what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.”

Faith isn’t an act of intelligence, it’s an act of imagination.