If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.
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