We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

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.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.