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

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

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

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.