Letters to Malcolm

"None of them[religious things] bad things. But none of them is necessarily of more spiritual value than the activities we call secular. And they are infinitely dangerous when this is not understood. The department of life, labelled 'sacred,' can become an end in itself; an idol that hides both God and my neighbours. ("When the means are autonomous they are deadly.") It may even come about that a man's most genuinely Christian actions fall entirely outside that part of his life which he calls religious.
I read in a religious paper, "Nothing is more important than to teach children to use the sign of the cross." Nothing? Not compassion, nor veracity, nor justice? Voila l'ennemi."
-C.S. Lewis