A Portrait in Shadow Quotes

“Won’t they?” she asked. “In my experience, people tend to listen when furious men make public pronouncements about one’s sins.”
― Nicole Jarvis, A Portrait in Shadow

“The man in the center shrugged. “I’ve heard it said: the Bible is a book about how one goes to Heaven—not how Heaven goes. You must admit that as a teaching tool, the Bible is ineffective. God gave us our intellect in order for us to use it, to understand this universe he created. If the Bible was trying to teach people astronomy, you would think it wouldn’t have skipped over the subject so completely.”
― Nicole Jarvis, A Portrait in Shadow