“Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)”
“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
“Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have”
“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.”
“Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.”
“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”