That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.