When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.