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"A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies... People who...go through life too busy or indifferent...will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy... A person's faith can collapse almost overnight..."

"...it is impossible to judge the rightness or wrongness of competing beliefs...absolute relativism can only exist if the relativists exempt themselves from their own razor... Relativity relativizes itself."

"Though none of these people are grateful for the tragedies themselves, they would not trade the insight, character, and strength they had gotten from them for anything."

"Everything sad is going to come untrue and it will somehow be greater for having once been broken and lost."

"Every account of justice and reason is embedded in a set of some particular beliefs about the meaning of human life that is not shared with everyone. The idea of a totally inclusive community is, therefore, an illusion. Every human community holds in common some beliefs that necessarily create boundaries..."

"Freedom cannot be defined in strictly negative terms, as the absence of confinement and constraint...confinement and constraint is actually a means to liberation."

"Disciplines and constraints...liberate us only when they fit with the reality of our nature and capacities...freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones...fit with the reality of our nature and the world produce greater power...a deeper joy and fulfillment."