The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself$$$ of course$$$ but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

It is not our work$$$ but God's gift$$$ that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

He who loves not wine$$$ women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

My heart$$$ which is so full to overflowing$$$ has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

A man has only one escape from his old self to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs$$$ why did He give us a brain?

Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing$$$

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.