Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

Faith is something you believe in the UNSEEN before you SEE to believe it!

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.