To be religious is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary.

When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...

... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat neat what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for hte history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears. (From "Juliet" thought by The Maestro. Chapter 5)

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

You were only given life, cause God knew you were strong enough to live it

Suffer to gain is better than gaining to suffer. In Christ you have to suffer to gain, but with the devil you have to gain to suffer. Christ is always the best.