I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually—like this today. The wo...
I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
Wait here, wait here! he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the distance ahead of him. Help, help! he shouted, but his voice was thin, scarcely a thread...
The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.
She didn’t like to admit it about her own kin, least about her own brother, but there he was—good for absolutely nothing.
I don’t want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go
His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.
Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which,...
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
To the person who believes this- as the western world did up until a few centuries ago- this physical, sensible world is good because it proceeds from a divine source. The artist usually knows this by...
When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christiani...
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propoundi...
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s, but behind all of them, there’s only one truth and that is that there’s no truth,
Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with re...