"Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived."
— Luke Timothy Johnson (The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters)

"In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood."
— G.K. Chesterton (Heretics)

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
— Hubert H. Humphrey

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in and century out, have concurred, each in his own way....speaking of crutches--Freud can be a crutch, Marx can be a crutch, rationalism can be a crutch, and atheism can be two canes and a pair of iron braces. We none of us have all the answers, nor are we likely to have. But in the country of the halt, the man who is surest he has no limp may be the worst-crippled."
— Herman Wouk (This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life)