“Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.”

“I think guns would be more effective if bullets worked like boomerangs.”

“Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.”

“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”

“Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.”

“Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself”