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unrealistically thinking it to be the answer to the
urge inherent in his nature. The discovery of
God is to fulfill his or her real urge to find God.
And the failure to discover God means failing to
find that which is man’s greatest need.
One who fails to find God is compelled by his
natural urge to give the place of God to
something other than God. This place is
sometimes accorded to a certain human being,
sometimes to a certain animal, sometimes to a
phenomenon of nature, sometimes to a certain
material power, sometimes to a certain supposed
concept and sometimes just to the self.
Even if one fails to discover God, or he
becomes a denier of God, it is not in his or her
power to stifle the urge in his nature to find
God. That is why those men and women who
have not found God inevitably come to hold
something other than God as God. And this
supposed God is always some creature or the
other of God. By nature, it is possible for man
