A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.