“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”
“Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.”
“Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.”
“A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.”
“There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.”
“In the economy of Nature, nothing is ever lost. I cannot believe that the soul of man shall prove the one exception.”