“Two thieves also enjoyed the ride with Jesus. Maybe he's coming back to fulfil the promise that he made that day on the cross. Coming for the thief, rather like a thief himself.”

“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”

“The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.”

“4788. The Thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a Thief.”

“If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.”

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”

“Death never comes at thetime, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

“Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore.”

“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

“The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.”