Quotes from Daniel L. Pals

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Explanations need not be valid to be of value. In religion, as in other fields of inquiry, a suggestive and original theory can, even in failure, stimulate new inquiry or reformulate problems in such a way as to promote fruitful new understandings. (p.10).