Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.