Religious Belief and Truth

British particle-physicist-turned-priest the Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS, says:

Our concern is with the search for truth. A religious belief can do all sorts of things for us — it can sustain us in life and in the approach of death; it can provide a thread of meaning in what would otherwise be a labyrinth of inanity — but it cannot do these things with integrity unless it is founded on the truth. … The religious believer wishes to be found in the company of honest inquirers and not of polemicists for a cause.

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… We simply have to be aware of the dangers of credulity and the dangers of sceptism, and pilot a path between them.

The Faith of a Physicist, Fortress Press paperpack ed., ch. 2, pp. 30-31.