To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.