If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you! — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“This Son is a god who walked, a pedestrian god—and in a hot place, at that—with a stride like any human stride,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God, " I blurted out, and looked down, red in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
