You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John RuskinThe more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John RuskinIt is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin