I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

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.

One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.