Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.