The Search for GOD
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the root of true art and true science.
It is knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, a perception of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most abstract primitive forms are accessible to our minds – it is this knowledge and emotion that constitute true religiousity.
A genuine faith must recognize that it is through a dark glass we see; though by faith we do penetrate sufficiently to the heart of the mystery not to be overwhelmed by it.
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
It recognizes that no aspect of life or existence explains itself, even after all known causes and consequences have been traced.
All existence is ancient; and ancient has no beginning.
All known existence points beyond itself.
To realize that it points beyond itself to God is to assert th...