Sommerset Maughan - Razor´s Edge

"(Larry): I´ve come too late into a world too old. I should have been born in the middle ages when faith was a matter os course; then my way would have been clear to me and I´d have sought to enter the order. I couldn´t believe, I wanted to believe, but I couldn´t believe in a God who wasn´t better than the ordinary decent man. The monks told me that god had created the world for his glorification. That didn´t seem to me a very worthy object. Did Beethoven create his simphonies for his glorification? I don´t believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them as perfect as he knew how.
I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord´s Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pary without misgiving to their heavenly father to give them their daily bread. Do children beseech their earthly father to give them sustenance? They expect him to do it, they neither feel nor need to feel gratitude for him for doing it, and we have only blame for a man who brings children into the world that he can´t or won´t provide for. It seemed to me that if an omnipotent creator was nor prepared to provide his creatures with the necessities of existence, material and spiritual, he´d have done better not to create them."