"The Power and the Glory" Quotes
A guilt-ridden whiskey priest navigates persecution and self-redemption in Mexico during a time of religious suppression.
fiction | 243 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
Sin is a poisonous thing, isn’t it?
You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the ... appalling ... strangeness of the mercy of God.
Hate was not in him; only a great weariness.
They had nothing to give but love.
Hate is the failure of imagination.
Hate was just a failure of the imagination.
He wanted to cry aloud, not for himself, but for the words which could never be answered.
Love. That was what he wanted.
Pity was not enough, no; and yet he could do nothing else.
His failure was over. He could be a good man again.
