So Great Yet So Little

One of the most infamous freethinkers of England was a man by the name of Anthony Collins, who died in 1729. He was author of the well-known “Discourse on Freethinking.” This Collins one day met a poor working man on his way to church.

“Where are you going,” asked Collins.

“To church, sir,” answered the workingman.

“Is your God a great God or a little God,” asked Collins in an attempt to confuse the mind of the poor fellow. But the church-goer gave him the perfect answer:

“He is so great, sir, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, and so little that He can dwell in my heart.”

Collins later admitted that this simple but sublime answer of an uneducated man had more effect upon his mind than all the volumes of argument he had read in favor of religion.