“Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one is asked to give them up.” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever,… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments… They will do it, then they… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Rich people didn't get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
![“[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made…” quote by Sheri S. Tepper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/102/sheri-s-tepper-8133_action_t-he-scripture-worshippers-put-the-writi_160608.jpg)
