Walter M. Miller Jr. quotes:

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.