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

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

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.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.