“Each deity controlled different elements of the world order, so no one god had full control, and which deity was in charge fluctuated over time and place.”

“There is an element of control we have over suffering.”

“Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).”

“I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself.”

“Words are so easily spoken, as you’ve proven", the Deity had continued, "but so rarely are they backed up with action”

“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”