A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity

I am also concerned not to come off as shrill or preachy when what I really am is more like confused.

Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father?

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

...I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.