By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.