“Theologians and other clerks, You won’t understand this book, — However bright your wits — If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason’s house. ”

“A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?”

“Remembering this: weak faith is still faith. Little faith is still faith Pr. Paddick Van Zyl”

“The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.”

“The truth speaks for itself.”

“To reject the Word of God is to forsake the holy grace.”

“Faye gulped. “I think a real reading of the Bible would lead you to remember that long ago God was the one who shook the waters in the great flood. So I don’t think a little cold water thrown on Him by science is going to scare Him any.”

“Be still, and know that I will always love you.”

“I can chart my own path.  However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead to the edge of some really big cliffs. Maybe I should consider charting a path out of charting my path.”

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

“The most difficult thing is not the belief in the infinite. No. The most difficult thing of all is to believe that the infinite would be so grand and gracious as to reside in the smallness of us. That is what requires the greatest faith.”

“If I’m not willing to accept a God who does the impossible, I’m left with what’s possible. And that takes me no further than myself.”