'I am only interested in a faith that has "passed through" the fires of atheism, the blaze of modernity, and the critical scrutiny of psychoanalysis and science. What survives after all else has been burnt away...after conventional forms have been melted down...is the only kind of faith that resonates with the spiritual needs of our extraordinary time'
"Does this impossibility of religious faith mean that atheists are excluded from life's most marvelous, wonderful, delightful feeling? I'm afraid that I must answer, it does."