How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn’t occur in the present day?
BRANDON SANDERSONFaith isn’t about logic, son,” Haddek said. “Perhaps that’s your problem. You cannot ‘disprove’ the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away.
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It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
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Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
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It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
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I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
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I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
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That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
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Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.
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I’m just good at ignoring the fact that I’m terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you’ll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.
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Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. “Does nothing frighten you, sule?” “Actually, pretty much everything here does.
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What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
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I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.
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