Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.