I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.