I s'pose you'll own up to that ?" The idea that any being, natural or supernatural, could be wiser than one of the Bartrams was not pleasing to the lawyer, when suggested so abruptly, but it was conceded, after a moment of thought, by a condescending nod of the head.
"Then," Sam continued, "how am I goin' to be supposed to know all that He's doin' an' not doin' for me, an' when He's goin' to do somethin' else, or whether He's goin' to do it at all.

If I was as smart as a lawyer, I wouldn't need one; if I was as smart an' good as Him that's lookin' after me, there wouldn't need to be any God or Saviour, would there ?" "Then you are satisfied He is God and Saviour, eh?
Some wiser men have believed differently." "I only know what I was told an' what I've read for myself, sir.

The man that put me up to it told me not to try to believe everythin' that everybody else did, but to believe as much as I could an' live up to it, bein' extra particular about the livin' up." "But you ought to know something--have some distinct idea--as to whom you're believing in.

What do you know about Him, after all ?" "I know," said the cobbler, "just what I've told you before, when you've asked me the same question.

I know He was once in the world, an' didn't do anybody any harm, an' done a good deal of good, an' taught folks to do right an' how to do it.