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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
Will he always come between us?Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall."
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker-ever since I first learned Stark and read , I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well.""You did well, Human.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him {Stephen}. Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate."
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
I never went to the priests to confess," she said, "because I knew they would despise me for my sin. Yet when you named all my sins today, I could bear it because I knew you didn't despise me. I couldn't understand why, though, till now.""I'm not one to despise other people for their sins," said Ender. "I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say inside myself, I've done worse than this.""All these years you've borne the burden of humanity's guilt.
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Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead
Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.
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