Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware