Quotes by Updike, John

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence k >>

In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, >>

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rai >>

Quotations about Christians and Christianity

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the e >>

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. >>

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent mor >>

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Updike, John