“An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage.”
“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”
“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.”
“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”
“The worse the passage the more welcome the port. ”
“My gramma used to think that passage when Jesus said, ‘In my Father’s house are many rooms,’ didn’t mean there was a big hotel in heaven. It meant there were lots of different ways to worship.”