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

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.