...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.