Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.