When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

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