“Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect the investigation of the historian.”
“Je ne parle pas, je dis la vérité.”
“I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I”
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.”
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth, which is the mother of history the preserver of great actions, the enemy of oblivion, the witness of the past, the director of the future.”
“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”