The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

José Saramago

Top 10 Best Quotes

“...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..”

“Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.”

“Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.”

“The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.”

“God will save you. Surely you're forgetting that God saves souls rather than bodies.”

“God does not forgive the sins He makes us commit.”

“The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.”

“Are dreams perhaps the soul’s memories of the body,”

“It just isn't possible for you to ask me all the questions, or for me to give you all the answers.”

“The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.”

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