When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.

Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.