… one could say that a certain quality has gone out of life because of the limitations that have been put on life’s goals by a secular culture. We have only a vague recollection of loftier goals because relatively few people are left who remember or who experienced the best of the old religious feelings. I do not mean that people are no longer religious or incapable of belief in transcendent reality. What I say is that it is extremely hard to sustain such beliefs and feelings in a world that quietly asserts that they are less than moonshine.
One of the blessings of my life is that I do remember and have experienced the best of those old religious feelings, which has made it easy for me to dismiss those who would dismiss such feelings as mere moonshine.
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