I, personally, tend to find God more easily outside the church than in. It’s taken me a very long time to feel like I could say those words out loud, let alone write them. But they are true, and I believe there is a holiness in truth, no matter how hard it is to say or face or hear.
“If you ask me to show you God, I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm.
But if you say, ‘You mean, then, that God is the sun, the tree, the worm, and all other things?’—
I shall have to say that you have missed the point entirely.”
- Alan Watts