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.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.