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“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“You do not always say goodbye to those you love beside a deathbed, in an atmosphere of leisure and incense.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Perhaps all life was like that--dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory