We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

I pray because I can't help myself.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.