Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.