“You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.”

“Some laymen feel that, out of loyalty, they ought to cling to ancient ways of expressing the Christian faith and that to doubt is to sin. But doubt is not the enemy of faith. It is the growing edge of faith...”

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”

“One never knows whether the Poet is speaking fact, fancy, or allegory. If fancy is clever enough, I doubt that the Poet would admit a difference between fancy and fact.”

“Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.”

“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”

“I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”

“Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.”

“To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy.”

“He preached to himself, as Max Gottlieb had once preached to him, the loyalty of dissent, the faith of being very doubtful, the gospel of not bawling gospels, the wisdom of admitting the probable ignorance of one's self and of everybody else, and the energetic acceleration of a Movement for going very slow.”