I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.