“I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.”

“The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance.”

“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going. ”

“I’m a realist,” I replied stubbornly, “not a romantic. Romanticsare always disappointed.”“Maybe they’re disappointed because they’re always surroundedby realists.” Simon countered.”

“To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief...Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”

“If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. ”