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.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

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.

One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.