The Devil's Prayer Quotes

“The clear night, so distant from any light pollution, had summoned every star in the sky to shine.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“You cannot hate someone if you have never loved them.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“It is the prerogative of night, when thoughts, like relentless waves, break on the impressionable sands of the mind. Questions, theories, and suppositions come crashing ashore, and just like waves, they disappear into the grains of the mind without a trace. In this sea of uncertainty, stormed by nocturnal nightmares, the mind slips in and out of consciousness. It is the melting pot where logic and fantasy combine until supposition becomes hypothesis and hypothesis morphs into unsubstantiated fact.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“In the words of the Renaissance physicist and occultist Paracelsus, 'Sola dosis facit venenum', which means the dose makes the poison. Even oxygen and water, which are essential to all living creatures, are toxic if the dose is too high. And so it is with religion, too.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“Religion is like a knife; in the hands of a surgeon, it heals, but in the hands of a murderer, it kills.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“You are confusing God with religion. It is like water. Water is water, whether you drink it from the tap, or you get it from a bottle. Sparkling or still, it is always water, irrespective of the brand or packaging. God is like water and religion is the brand or packaging.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“Guilt is the currency of the Catholic faith”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer

“Nobody knew I was coming,' she replied, shocked.

The policeman shook his head and turn to the empty city centre square. 'Everybody knows.”
― Luke Gracias, The Devil's Prayer