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“The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.”

Faith Humility Giacomo Nerone

Book:The Devil's Advocate

Source: The Devil's Advocate

“Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.”

Belief Giacomo Nerone

Book:The Devil's Advocate

Source: The Devil's Advocate

“I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There are no questions of conscience, no constraints, except the constraints of custom, convention and the law, and these are flexible enough for most purposes. It is only later that terror comes. One is free - but free in chaos, in an unexplained and unexplainable world. One is free in a desert, from which there is no retreat but inward, toward the hollow core of oneself. There is nothing to build on but the small rock of one's own pride, and this is a nothing, based on nothing... I think, therefore I am. But what am I? An accident of disorder, going no place.”

Belief Atheism Giacomo Nerone

Book:The Devil's Advocate

Source: The Devil's Advocate

“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.”

Life Death Giacomo Nerone

Book:The Devil's Advocate

Source: The Devil's Advocate

“Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit.”

God Faith Sex Sexuality Giacomo Nerone

Book:The Devil's Advocate

Source: The Devil's Advocate