The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

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.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.