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Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

You are as close to God in your own sitting room as in the basilica; but the basilica has worth if it strengthens your faith.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

I believe in the force of time, the impetus of that dimension that seems to have baffled even the physicists, the power of that force that will, in time, cure every ill, solve every problem, fulfill every nightmare. Time. I see time all about me, like a substance. I see it in the clutter of my apartment, in the fabric of the city, in the lessons that I teach. The tyranny of time, as dictatorial as any god.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

Ideas are your children, for you have no others. Ideas are your contribution to posterity.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

Hope is the destroyer of things.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole--corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas


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