“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfallin fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts...”

“He hadnt altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.”

“Its a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but its happened on your watch.”

“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experienceso irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely godless contexts with little of ...”

“When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and lab...”

“He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”