American Savior Quotes

“I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“There's about six original people in the world. The rest of everybody else are copycats. When it comes to religion and politics, ninety percent of people do what their parents did and think they made up their minds for themselves. They watch the news to see what the latest trends are.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“There is...a golden alpine field within each of you, a place where you are bathed in approval, not because of anything particular you have done, but simply because of your own sacred nature. If you had a president who could show you the route to that place, what a difference it would make in your lives, and in the culture of the world!”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“God couldn't possibly love my father and hate my mother, or vice versa; that God was bigger than our ideas about him and greater than any name we might call him.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“It was becoming clear to me that what Jesus wanted from us was not pious obedience to a narrow set of rules, but a smart, limitless openmindedness that allowed us--in real life, in actual day-to-day , modern American life--to treat the other person the way we would want to be treated--Gay people, Jewish people, dumb people, rich people, poor people, women, men, right-wingers, liberals, soldiers, and antiwar protesters, maybe even animals--we were supposed to see through the disguise they were wearing, all the down to the I AM in them. That was it. That was the the big commandment, I was almost sure.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“The realm of human understanding is the only realm most of us have access to,” I said.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics

“Resist fear,” Jesus said. “Fear is always in the future. Cut through it. Resist it.”
― Roland Merullo, American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics