“However much I may appreciate the value of some great Christian idea, when I kneel down to pray I am Protestant, with Christ only between me and God.”

Distinguishing intellectual sympathy from personal devotion · Letter

• Faith
• Prayer
• Religion

“I was born beneath quiet hills, among green pastures, beside still waters. My first companion was a little stream, my earliest counsellor an ancient Book.”

Evoking the formative influences of landscape and scripture · Autobiographical remark

• Childhood
• Faith
• Nature

“The power of faith is not in the person who exercises it but in the object in which it rests.”

Directing attention away from the believer’s strength and towards the object of faith · Religious prose

• Faith
• Hope