The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

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?

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.