Noel’s Reviews > Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions > Status Update

"God’s ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine. When we forsake our way of doing things in favor of his, we experience the kind of joy and peace that inspires mountains to shout and trees to applaud."

"God’s ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again."

What I mean is maybe you should look into the possibility that your issue isn’t actually with God himself but with certain beliefs about him — you know, flawed ways of explaining him. Maybe you have misjudged God. Maybe he isn’t this way at all.”

"Being a Christian, it seemed, isn’t about agreeing to a certain way; it is about embodying a certain way. It is about living as an incarnation of Jesus, as Jesus lived as an incarnation of God."

We claimed that ours was a rational, logical faith, when it centered on the God of the universe wrapping himself in flesh to be born in a manger in Bethlehem.

"Even Protestant theologian John Calvin considered geocentricism so fundamentally true that he claimed people who believed in a moving earth were possessed by the devil."

The problem with fundamentalism is that it can’t adapt to change. When you count each one of your beliefs as absolutely essential, change is never an option. When change is never an option, you have to hope that the world stays exactly as it is so as not to mess with your view of it.

"I have a feeling that if Darwin turns out to be right, the Christian faith won’t fall apart after all. Faith is more resilient than that. Like a living organism, it has a remarkable ability to adapt to change."