But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

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

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.