What of God's silence?

Words of divine consciousness; moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

--Yann Martel's Life of Pi, pg. 70