The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

I must endure to the end.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Thanks, ” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don't really notice the transition, when you're in the moment.

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.