Quote #8

'We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.' (p.10)

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  2. 'Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship w…
  3. 'When I look up at the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is that I really see there, I am constrained to say, 'There is no G…
  4. 'In us or through us the Primal Mind will have contemplated and enjoyed its own works and will continue to do so as long as human life endu…
  5. 'The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.'
  6. 'Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to …
  7. 'Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic con…
  8. 'Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.' (p.263)

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