“You were baptized?” — Orson Scott Card Quote

“You were baptized?”

“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.”

“Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Don't they get afraid, then?”

“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.”

“Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.”

“In the beginning -i.e., before the beginning, there was NOTHING. And matter came out of nothing. And matter was CHAOS.”

“Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.”

“The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.”