"If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys."
"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished."What I believe is alive ... and open to growth"
"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
"Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."