Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.