Lies with Man Quotes

“How do you deal with the God talk?”

I sipped my coffee and thought about how to frame a sensible answer to a difficult question. “By atheist I mean I don’t believe there’s an old man sitting on a throne in the sky keeping a list of my virtues and my vices either to torture or reward me when I die. What’s kept me going is the kindness, or maybe I should say the love, that I got in the program. That and a sense of my own truth about who I am and what matters to me. When my sponsor coaxed those admissions out of me, he said, well, there’s your God, love and self-acceptance. That’s enough for me. I don’t worry about what anyone else means by God.”
― Michael Nava, Lies with Man

“They had spoken to him of this fear in a thousand conversations over the years, the dread that infected their lives so that every setback, every difficulty— the lost job, the drug-addicted child, the failed marriage— was the result, not of life’s uncertainty or human frailty, but of a dark power being wielded against them.”
― Michael Nava, Lies With Man