Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.