We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.