Also, do not miss this excellent post: Dostoevsky, Williams and the real question to ask about religion.
To assume that all facts equals truth is to opt for a rationalistic account of the world. And pure rationalism always leads to violence, Williams continues, because its only response to the humanly irrational is to do away with it. The rational and scientific has a central role to play in the pursuit of truth, but at some point it must give way since truth is ultimately not a matter of proving but of seeing – seeing through things and events to joy and beauty. It is a kind of loving attention, and is in that sense truth is closer to freedom and faith than reason and proof.
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