I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

The spirits run riot in youth.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.