"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"
Pope Benedict XVI, speaking rhetorically, during a speech at the Auschwitz concentration camp

"I do not know what we did. But we must have sinned for God to be angry like this."
Jodi Riwono, a survivor of an earthquake that struck near the town of Yogyakarta in Indonesia and a man who knows little about plate tectonics, as quoted in Time magazine

"You look at things that have happened to us this year. You look at some of the moves we made and didn't make. You look at some of the games we're winning. Those aren't just a coincidence. God has definitely had a hand in this."
Dan O'Dowd, Colorado Rockies general manager, on his team's first winning season since 2000, which he credits to the organization's embrace of Christianity. As Christians, the Rockies' management has banned profanity-laced music and men's magazines from the clubhouse; the team continues, however, to play in a ball park named Coors Field