Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?