A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

We are what we believe we are.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.