Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faithsโฆ all faithsโฆ are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.
Dan BrownThe act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.
Dan BrownForce a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.
Dan BrownOutside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.
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