I have taken these from different parts of the interview, but I think I retain his meaning:
" If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Uncertainty is in every true discernment that is open to finding confirmation in spiritual consolation."
“The risk in seeking
and finding God in all things, then, is the willingness to explain too much, to
say with human certainty and arrogance: ‘God is here.’ We will find only a god
that fits our measure."" If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Uncertainty is in every true discernment that is open to finding confirmation in spiritual consolation."
This captures what makes me so uncomfortable about many fundamentalists. They are so certain that their understanding of God is complete and correct, that they create a God in their own image, instead of seeking to recreate themselves in God's.
(I am neither supporting nor refuting that there is a God, to me the case remains open.)
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