“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”

“It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.”

“Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.”

“I hate that there are so many sides of him that I don't understand, and I don't know if I even want to keep trying to understand them. There are parts of him that I love, parts of him that I hate. But there's a part of him that does nothing but disappoint me, and that's the absolute hardest part to accept.”