The Gargoyle

by Andrew Davidson

My “miraculous survival” will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn’t really belong to either of them.”

“I do not believe,” whispered Father Sunder, “in any God that considers love to be a sin.”

Belief in a better future is an amazing gift.

Abstinence is a bridle that gives the spirit a chance in the eternal quarrel with the body.”

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

Says the problem with most Christians is that they show up at church once a week to pray that God’s will be done—and when it is, they complain.”

“Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”

“If harming oneself were reason for commitment, psychiatric hospitals would be filled with smokers and fast food customers.”