Austin Steelman

“To believe what?” “To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”
― Mark A. Noll

“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale