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

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

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

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.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.