Collins, the freethinker, met a plain countryman one Sunday morning walking along the road. He asked him where he was going. “To yonder meeting place, sir.” “What to do there?” “To worship God.” “Is your God a great or a little God?” “He is both, sir.” “How can He be both?” “He is so great, sir, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him; and so little that He can dwell in my heart.” Collins declared that the simple answer by the countryman had more effect upon his mind than all the volumes which the learned doctors had written against him.
ML 02/14/1965