“ . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”

“Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.”

“If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must regard their beliefs with the same respect our own deserve.”

“Good-bye,” I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them slip between our fingers, those choices become our own.”

“He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father)Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)”