“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”

“Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”

“But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.”

“Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like the rest of us.”

“Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”