..let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end.... Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith. Robert Harris
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The fact that we humans are made up of both good and evil, that we have both light and dark sides to us, is what allows us to become something greater than our individual selves. The fact that we can see both sides of ourselves and come to a decision about them is what allows us to grow spiritually. There is no better example of this than the life of Jesus Christ. He rose from the dead to show us that the paths we must take in our lives are not easy, and that sometimes we must be willing to pay a heavy price for the things we believe in.

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