“I very much believe that poetry is . . . a confrontation with reality, that literature . . . has very much to do with your life.”

“. . . Ultimately, I think poetry trains us for experience with God.”

“I write because I want to search for truth.  I want to engage with it.  I want to grow as a person.“

“. . . Moses, very frequently, describes the Law as showing people how they can flourish.”

“Ideas matter. Ideas have consequences.”

“[Communism] treats people as simply economic creatures that are only interested in material goods.”

“It gets better, and it gets worse, but it’s always changing.”

“God will defeat evil in its entirety without violating human freedom.”

“It’s [the Christian philosophical renaissance] one of the great stories of Christian academia in the twentieth century.”

“I think good writing is good thinking.”

“I want people to be taken to a dark place [in literature] so the light of Christ shines brighter.”

“The pieces in Ekstasis . . . [are] definitely capturing those moments of magic and glory that we sometimes forget are inherent in life with Christ.”

“In many ways, John answers Job. . . . Different books of the Bible exist in conversations with each other in different ways.”

“[Poetry and stories] speak to people at a deeper level than just laying down rules or just straight talk.”

“I found I had a growing interest in the aesthetic goodness of faith.”

“The short answer [to why we should care about art] is beauty, goodness, and truth.”