In worship, God imparts himself to us.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.