“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.”

“The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...”

“If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God. ”

“When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.”

“Jeb regarded me with n o expression. "Do you believe in God, Allison?""No," I said immediately. "Is this the part where you tell me I'm going to hell?""This is hell," Jebbadiah said, gesturing to the town around us. "This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.”

“I may be a bum but God has to rest on something”