“God is not a being; God is Being. For those who have found God, his presence shows in honesty, kindness, carefully chosen words, and an absence of shame about the past. The pain may still be there, though quieted, but the grandiosity and false ego that insists on either secrecy or great sinnerhood is burned out and gone.”

–Jack Erdman in “Finding God When You Don’t Believe in God: Searching for a Power Greater Than Yourself.”