“The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It’s more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force … and one does not set a Force in motion lightly.”

“downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.”

“On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.”

“All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.”

“Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.”

“...it was more like bleeding than crying.”

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”