The factor that makes us question the authority of the expert is that we are personally emotionally involved in the result. - Leslie Weatherhead

Let us never imagine that faith can ever be furthered by suppressing doubt, let alone by suppressing evidence. All truth is one, and religion must be as eager as science to know the truth as far as man can perceive it. If something we have treasured as truth is really contradicted by unanswerable evidence, then in the name of the God of truth we must part with it however venerable it may be. Let us never suppose that we can take over faith from our parents without examination, or believe anything merely because another says it is true. But let us not be content with a static agnosticism which never rouses itself to make inquiry. Let us examine the evidence and then in complete loyalty to its trend make a leap both of intellect and will, and, committing ourselves, acting as if all were established, try out in life the faith that carries us on wings after the hard road of fact and reason stops.

In the cases of nearly all of us, what our fathers were, we are, and we make up our reasons afterwards.

I hold that the self-authentication of truth, or, in other words, seeing, is the authority, and the only authority there is in the field of religion.