First contact in an unexpected setting!
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“Any #fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”
#QuotsyFeb18
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“Any #fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”
#QuotsyFeb18
Not so much #PrayingToTheAliens as praying WITH the aliens, but it‘s the first book I thought of.
When a ship of insectoid aliens crashes in Germany in 1349, the creatures slowly incorporate themselves into the small village of Oberhochwald. They help with the crops, make friends and enemies, and many convert to Christianity. Then the Black Death hits.
A fascinating look at faith, plus aliens with jet packs. #Recommendsday #NuYear
“For what purpose have you prayed?"
"For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.”
#aQuoteaDay from a conversation between the priest of a small European village in 1348, and the insectoid alien who crash-landed there.
“Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement," Dietrich answered, "so one finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat than there is in pulling weeds.”
#aQuoteaDay
