It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

A God you understood would be less than yourself.

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.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

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.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.