Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
— Thomas Howard
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
