The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be.

“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.

the only interesting people are interested people,

The modern scientist is not so naive as to deny God because he cannot be found with a telescope, or the soul because it is not revealed by the scalpel. He has merely noted that the idea of God is logically unnecessary. He even doubts that it has any meaning. It does not help him to explain anything which he cannot explain in some other, and simpler

the community is its own moralist. It elects and pays judges, policemen, and preachers, as if to say, “When I am difficult, please kick me.

These myths

the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath.

it is just the feeling of being an isolated “I” which makes me feel lonely and afraid.

Belief clings, but faith lets go.