The glaring defect of current religion--I mean the vigorous kind, not the kind that is responsible for empty churches--is that it spends so much time in running round the arc, and rather takes the centre for granted.

We see a great deal of love in generous-minded people, but also a good many gaps in it which reference to the centre might help us to find and to mend.

Some Christian people seem to have a difficulty about loving reactionaries, and some about loving revolutionaries.

And in institutional religion there are people of real ardour, called by those beautiful names Catholic and Evangelical, who do not seem able to see each other in the light of this wide-spreading love.

Yet they would meet at the centre.