“New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into ...”

“Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.”

“The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.”

“Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.”

“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”

“Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

“Sometimes salvation is found in agony.”

“There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”

“Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It h...”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”