If you've survived your childhood, you have enough to write about for the rest of your life. - Flannery O'Connor

About the only way we know whether we believe or not is by what we do

If you want your faith, you have to work for it. It is a gift, but for very few is it a gift given without any demand for equal time devoted to its cultivation. For every book you read that is anti-Christian, make it your business to read one that presents the other side of the picture; if one isn't satisfactory read others. Don't think that you I have to abandon reason to be a Christian. A book that might help you is The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson. Another is Newman's The Grammar of Assent. To find out about faith, you have to go to the people who have it and you have to go to the most intelligent ones

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.