All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

A God you understood would be less than yourself.