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He only has the fullest right to talk of God who knows God, not his idea, fancy, belief, or imagination about God. He only should write of the soul, its power, peace, and wisdom, who lives in it every moment of every day. But since such men are all too rare and hard to find, mankind has had to accept substitutes for them. These substitutes are frail and fallible mortals, clutching at shadows. This is why religionists disagree, quarrel, fight, and persecute both inside and outside their own groups.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 86 -- Perspectives > Chapter 17: The Religious Urge > # 3