I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton