Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'