Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

For no change comes calmly over the world.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.