The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.