It is easy for the fool, especially the learned and scientific fool, to prove that there is no God, but, like the murmuring sea, which heeds not the scream of wandering birds, the soul of humanity murmurs for God, and confutes the erudite folly of the fool by disregarding it.

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Salvation Here and Hereafter: Sermons and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co, 1877) X. "Christianity and Ritual", p. 217. Quoted in James Orr, The Christian View of God and the World, 7th ed. (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1904) Lecture III, p. 74

It is easy for the fool, especially the learned and scientific fool, to prove that there is no God, but, like the murmuring sea, which heeds not the scream of wandering birds, the soul of humanity murmurs for God, and confutes the erudite folly of the fool by disregarding it.

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