“The path of faith was a crooked one.”

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

“The straight path must sometimes be crooked. ”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“In this world, the only easy path is the course of least resistance. This is the path always taken by a stream of water as it seeks lower and lower ground. It will never go over an obstacle, and even when it has to go around one, water will always find the easiest way around, the way that requires as little work as possible. This, you have have noticed, is what makes rivers crooked, and it makes men and women crooked too. The easy path never goes anywhere but downward, and spiritually, that is not the direction we want to go. Worthwhile destinations always take extra effort.”

“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”