Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

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

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

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