Raised in Church

Here's a couple of quotes I've found recently. They really need no explanation from me....

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
Robert Louis Stevenson

I think it was touch-and-go for my soul during my years of Christianity. I'm happy to find it alive and well now....

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."
Sophy Burnham

And the puzzling is good.