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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.