At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.