One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.