The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And evn the rigid feature: Yet neer with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange For deity offended. – Robert Burns
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. – Frederick Buechner
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray
