Religion comes from our pity for humans They are too weak to live without divine protection. Too weak to listen to the screeching noise of the turning of infernal wheels. Who among us would accept a universe in which there was not one voice Of compassion, pity, understanding? To be human is to be completely alien amid the galaxies. Which is sufficient reason for erecting, together with others, the temples of an unimaginable mercy.

— Czeslaw Milosz