Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

First and foremost, I am a Christian.

I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The saint enjoys real attachment to God when he experiences states of contentment and satisfaction.

In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.

I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Christianity is a love relationship with Christ far below—or above, if you like—differences of belief or different ways of worshiping, far above differences of language or of color.

The same bond which unites believers to Christ binds them to each other. The love which is exercised towards the Head extends to the members. The union itself necessarily involves a union of affection. Those who love Christ love those who are like Him and those who are beloved by Him.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin