“The dead must humor the mourners, he thought, and the sick must comfort the visitors. It was always so.”

“But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.”

“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.”

“That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.”

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

“...in divinity opposites are always reconciled.”

“Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.”