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

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

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

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

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.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.