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"Great works (of art) and good works (of charity) had better also be Good Work... Otherwise we merely confirm the majority in their conviction that the world of Business, which does with such efficiency so much that never really needed doing, is the real, the adult, and the practical world, and that all this 'culture' and all this 'religion'... are essentially marginal, amateurish, and rather effeminate activities."

"No man who says I'm as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did... The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior... Yes, and therefore [he] resents every kind of superiority in others... Presently he suspects every mere difference of being a claim to superiority."

"To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbor in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time."

"We trust not because 'a God' exists, but because this God exists."

"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine."