Ryan M Brodeur

“But I want more. I want reasons to have faith in my faith, to have a reasonable confidence that there is actually truth in what my religion teaches me about God and my relation to God. And that faith has to be based on something within myself that I already trust: it has to be consonant with my experience of the universe and my abilities to reason about that universe.”
― Guy Consolmagno, God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion

“Few of us have the power to heal broken legs, but we all have the power to forgive our neighbor. Yet how often do we do so?”
― Guy Consolmagno, God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion

“When John O’Malley was a Jesuit novice, an older priest told him three things to remember when living in community: First, you’re not God. Second, this isn’t heaven. Third, don’t be an ass.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“I do not mean to deny the existence and importance of rules. A techie understands the value of rules; any attempt to reduce religion to a set of “feel-good” emotions, besides being dishonest, would imply to a scientist or an engineer that religion is without substance and thus devoid of worth. And though a typical techie would love to be an expert in everything, the more realistic among us realize that there are times when we’re forced to rely on the expertise of others. For many of us, religion is one of those times. That’s when we depend on rules to guide us.”
― Guy Consolmagno, God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion