Barb Terpstra

“Religion, being a human construct, allows
people to create a God after their own image instead of the other way round.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“I have remembered this episode for a long time because it so clearly illustrates the confusion we are in. We think of sin as a series of misdeeds, but in Biblical theology it is a condition.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“To God obscenity is not uncovered flesh. It is exposed intention. Nakedness is just a state of heart.”
― Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy