Josiahmeyer

“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Paul does not say what precisely had happened, but he tells the Corinthians the effect that it had on him (in a deliberate and completely justifiable plea for personal sympathy): he was so utterly overwhelmed, beyond any capacity to cope, that he despaired of life itself (1:8). He felt as though he had received the sentence of death in himself (1:9). This language—internalizing a death-sentence—sounds close to what we might call a nervous breakdown, and certainly indicates severe depression.”
― N.T. Wright, Resurrection Son of God V3: Christian Origins and the Question of God