Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.