An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.