Quotes from book

The Power and the Glory

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in… We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”

“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

“Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?”

“When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity— that was a quality God's image carried with it.”