Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

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

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.