Not surprisingly he later came to prefer the term 'trust' to the term 'belief'. But what caught my attention was the way he expressed his understanding of faith. I think he says it well. For a theology of certainty doesn't leave any room for faith. Faith is not certitude.
Faith is a kind of paradox.
Faith is not being absolutely sure of something. It is leaping into the unknown. It is living by something we most deeply believe in. It is the willingness to walk the human journey and to do that inwardly and in company with others. It is the courage to walk through the fears that we have and not be paralysed by those fears.