Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Beware of the man of one book.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.