Without such sensations there is no religion.

[soso]

On faith

It is a profound mistake [to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror], 

the sense of our own nothingness, which come /upon us /when we think about the nature of things. 

It comes /to intensify them.

Without such sensations there is no religion. 

[Many a man], brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, 

who comes through reading Astronomy /to realise for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, 

and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, 

may at that moment be having [his first genuinely religious experience].

* comes through ; to complete or endure something successfully 

From Miracles
Compiled in Words to Live By