John Stapylton Habgood

“To be a Christian is to live in a certain kind of story.”

“A creed is a sign of intellectual vitality. The learners have been learning something, and they have something to say.”

“A society which is liberal and humane must be able to trust its members.”

“Myths are not lies. They are stories which tell the truth in a different way.”

“Doubt is the necessary corollary of faith.”

“There is a kind of moral seriousness which is almost indistinguishable from arrogance.”

“The purpose of a liberal education is to make you a good companion to yourself.”

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”

“The sense of the sacred is a universal human experience, which is not to say that it is always religious.”

“The attempt to be religious without belonging to a community is, for most people, a recipe for building a private world of fantasy.”

“The great paradox of freedom is that it is only to be found in commitment.”