“All religions are true but none are literal.”

“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.”

“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world. So none of this is happening. Such things could not occur. Never a word of it is literally true.”

“All these are true and none. The place is thereIs what we name it, and is not. It is.”

“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”

“Sure it is that They have many faces. All the shapes the Divine shows us are true; and none are all the Truth.”