And here as in the former case, our perplexities cannot be explained away.

We can only meet them by seeing that if they have any power at all, they are all-powerful, and that they will not destroy religion only, but the entire moral conception of man also.

Religious belief, and moral belief likewise, involve both of them some vast mystery; and reason can do nothing but focalise, not solve it.
All, then, that I am trying to make evident is this--and this must be sufficient for us--not that theism, with its attendant doctrines, presents us with no difficulties, necessitates no baffling contradictions in terms, and confronts us with no terrible and piteous spectacles, but that all this is not peculiar to theism.

It is not the price we pay for rising from morality to religion.

It is the price we pay for rising from the natural to the supernatural.