The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis