You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.