The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.