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"They all said the same thing about the Manhattan Project. That they'd never had so much fun in their lives. But anyone who doesnt understand that the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant events in human history hasnt been paying attention. It’s up there with fire and language. It's at least number three and it mag be number one. We just don't know yet. But we will."

"I confess also that some part of me hopes that the men I have interviewed are not representative of the whole, because for some of these men I have a certain respect. Whatever their misdeeds, and they are awful, I cannot shake the impression that some have shown a certain honor since committing them. Thousands more have done worse, and never speak a word of it...And I must confess that in a few I could see myself."

"Meaninglessness would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. So it wouldn't be meaningless. That's where I always end up. Once you ask if there is meaning, the only answer is yes. You can't get away from it."

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"'Charity' long ago lost its original meaning, and has come to mean a cold, dutiful giving. And 'love' is now almost entirely limited to the narrower forms of sex. Canon Tallis suggests that perhaps for our day the best translation of 'love' is the name of Jesus, and that will tell us everything about love we need to know."

As slow as my progress has been, and despite how much is over my head, this book continues to amaze me. It's incredible to realize how much we know, and how much we likely never will of the world we live in.

"People complain about the bad things that happen to me that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did."

"He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spend ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air every day."

"'How did you get here, little girl?' she said, in a voice that suggested gingerbread cottages and the slamming of big stove doors."

Thus far, this is the most eloquently written non-fictional book I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

"Science is only interested in winners, although the losers sometimes provide more entertainment."

"We live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand."

Robert Jordan is difficult to get through even when I'm really enjoying him. I feel like his story is inhibited by his own writing.

Having a lot of trouble finishing. A little dryer and more sexist than I remembered. I loved it when I was younger but I'm having difficulty getting drawn in this time around.

"My goal for this book, then, is to assure people of faith that they do not need to feel anxious, disloyal, unfaithful, dirty, scared, or outcast for engaging these questions of the Bible, interrogating it, not liking some of it, exploring what it really says, and discerning like adult readers what we can learn from it on our own journey of faith."

"Christians who takes Paul's /theology/ with utmost seriousness are not also bound to accept Paul's view of Adam /historically/. How we today explain the origin and development of human life does not affect our acceptance of the reality of the human I got of sin and death or of God's unexpected, universal solution. "

"And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can."

"We write our names in the sand; and then the waves roll in and wash them away. . . But we can leave things behind us."

Seems logical. "Paul engaged vis scripture against the backdrop of hermeneutical conventions of his day, not ours, and we must understand Paul in that context. . . In the same way that we must calibrate the genre of Genesis by looking at the surrounding culture, we must also understand Paul's interpretation of the Old Testament within his ancient world."

Adam as a mirror of Israel. "Israel's drama - its struggles over the land and failure to follow God's law - is placed into primordial time. In doing so. . . Israel is asserting that (1) it's sorry pattern of disobedience and eventual exile has marked their existence since the very beginning; (2) despite this pattern, their creator and savior has always been with them - and remains with them. "

"When you really know somebody, you can't hate them." "Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them. "

"No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins."