The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

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

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.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.