Quotes from bookThe Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways.
“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
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“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
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“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
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“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”
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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
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Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)
“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
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“Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?”
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The Power and the Glory (1940)
