I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.
Orson Scott CardBut whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
Orson Scott CardYouโre not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
Orson Scott CardWe're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
Orson Scott CardHeโd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you canโt call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
Orson Scott CardDo you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.
Orson Scott Card