Frederick Buechner, American pastor and theologian, in The Magnificent Defeat, commented: "We all want to be certain, we all want proof, but the kind of proof we tend to want - scientifically and philosophically demonstrable proof that would silence all doubts once and for all - would not in the long run, I think answer the fearful depths of our need at all ... It is not objective proof of God's existence we want, but the experience of God's presence."

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