The New Gospel

Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Does God really exist?  How does he exist?  What is he? are so many irrelevant questions.  Not God, but life, more life, a larger, richer, more satisfying life, is, in the last analysis the end of religion … [A person] becomes conscious that this higher part is conterminous and continuous with a “more” of the same quality.  They [different religions] all agree that the “more” really exists; though some of them hold it to exist in the shape of a personal god or gods, while others are satisfied to conceive it as a stream of ideal tendency embedded in the eternal structure of the world … The only thing that it [religious experience] unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with “something” larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.