Colin Cloutus

“The fourteenth-century preacher, John Bromyard, used to tell the story of the shepherd who, asked if he knew who the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were, replied, 'The father and the son I know well for I tend their sheep, but I know not that third fellow; there is none of that name in our village.”
― Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England

“I read complex theology, but what interests me most are the simple phrases at the heart of it.”
― David Tibet

“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.”
― Martin Luther

“You have no love for the good, then force yourself to do good, without any love for it. That will be counted an even greater merit for you than for one who does good for the love of it. Simply force yourself a few times then the love will come to you as well. Believe me, everything can be done.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls