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

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Grace changes us and change is painful".