When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
Believing takes practice.