The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

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

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

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

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.

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