What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.