The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.