The Trinity Game Quotes

“It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Love is a verb.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't know what happens after, and we're afraid that this life is all there is.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“there’s three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“You know what”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“It isn’t about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead…and maybe in the end, works is all that matters.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“There’s only one God—everything else is metaphor.’ Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to every decent religion ever known?” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Exactly. Every religion in human history has had a variation of it, but why do so few people live by it? Because of all the other crap, because of the metaphors.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“you’re looking for absolute knowledge about the ultimate reality of the universe. I don’t have that knowledge. Nobody does. What I have is faith. And what I do know is, people have an inborn need to believe in the spirit, and ritual helps sustain that belief.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder in their wars.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“WAFFLE HOUSE Two words that spelled oasis across the Southland.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“that’s what religion is. A philosophy of coping. It may bring comfort to the dispossessed, but comfort isn’t good for the dispossessed. The dispossessed need to stay pissed off so things can change for the better.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Doesn’t matter if you run a barbershop, pharmacy, or gas station, remaining independent in today’s America is an uphill slog and the hill gets steeper with each passing year.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Man plans and God laughs.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy vegetables. Along the way, there’s a stream they have to wade through, about thigh-deep. At the edge of the water, they come across a beautiful young woman wearing a lovely silk dress. One of the monks offers to carry her across, and she accepts. On the other side, they part ways with the girl and walk on in silence. About five miles down the road, the other monk says, ‘I don’t think it was right, what you did back there. You know we’re not supposed to have contact with women.’ The monk who helped the girl replies, ‘I put the girl down once we crossed the river—why are you still carrying her?”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there’s just something wrong with your profession”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“The future ain’t what it used to be, but it’s coming right at us, regardless.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“at some point, we end up shifting focus to the freak show on the fringes of the story. And everybody loves a freak show. Then we start reporting the freak shows, even when there’s no real story attached.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Remember—there’s only one God, everything else is metaphor.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“there’s gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don’t realize how fragile the social order is, I’m telling you.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“But you better know now, it’s the way of life. Everything you love goes away in the end.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes after midnight is 24:23.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it’ll feed on any garbage.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“productivity meetings were just about the least productive thing ever devised by middle management, and that was saying plenty. Those corporate frat boys were master time-wasters. Their other major skills included ass-covering, blame-shifting, and brownnosing.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“the Song of Solomon. Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one’s house,
it would be utterly scorned.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Papa Legba was a prominent loa in voodoo mythology. Guardian of the Crossroads, facilitator of communication between the material and spirit worlds,”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“finally smiled for real. “Look, you’re my doubting”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“You know what the Jews say: Man plans and God laughs.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game