“We were invaded today, Lord Malory.""By a bunch of ungodly thieves and sellers of sin," Reverend Biggs said most indignantly.Walter latched on to the word "ungodly," asking, "These are different from Godly thieves, I take it?"He was being sarcastic,but the good reverend took him seriously instead, answering stiffly, "Heathens usually are, m'lord.”

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

“Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today.”

“The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.”

“Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised by the fact that the reverend is first and foremost a human being? Surprised by the fact that every human being, reverend or ribald, can be undone by capricious circumstances? Or should I be surprised by the fact that a man who teaches love and forgiveness can love and forgive? Tell me, Marmy, exactly what it is I should be surprised at?”

“It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.”