We all live on borrowed time which is why the late Beetle George Harrison said “Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait …”
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.
…Edward John Carnell (1919-1967), The Case for Orthodox Theology, p. 84 [1959]