"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
He wanted to cry aloud, not for himself, but for the words which could never be answered.
Hate was just a failure of the imagination.
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.
Sin is a poisonous thing, isn’t it?
Hate is the failure of imagination.
They had nothing to give but love.
The final sense of love is death.
To be believed in is the best thing that happens to us; many times, it is the rarest.
Pity was not enough, no; and yet he could do nothing else.
