Belief in God can mean nothing else but love of God.

All our troubles have come upon us from the failure of the Church to live in the radiant atmosphere of this belief, to make belief a life, a life that needs no dogmas and expresses itself by love.
But this was not to be.

The Church cultivated fear of God, and could not bring itself to trust human nature.
Belief passed into dogma; the mind of man was put in fetters as well as his body; the Church built one prison and the State another.

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