There are all sorts of transcendent response on offer but they to my mind are not necessary to call oneself religious. And obviously this is … semant… - Ursula Wiltshire Goodenough

Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it.

You can't have thought without emotion, and one emotion is fear, and making an important decision on the basis of fear is not a good idea. So develop your courage.

For me, Deism doesn't work because I find I can only think of a creator in human terms, and the concept of a human-like creator of muons and neutrinos has no meaning for me. But more profoundly, Deism spoils my covenant with Mystery. To assign attributes to Mystery is to disenchant it, to take away its luminance. I think of the ancients ascribing thunder and lightning to godly feuds, and I smile. The need for explanation pulsates in us all.