" the institution of the church exists to protect and guard the divine, to be the
custodian of what is most valuable. The lines of church dogma and practice are
thus not important in themselves. Their ultimate purpose is not to provide a struc-
ture for the institution. On the contrary, their ultimate purpose is to protect and
guard and serve the divine. To see the relation between the lines of the church
steeple and the moon is to understand metaphorically the proper relation between
institutional structure and religious value. "

― George Lakoff , More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor