It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.