Lovely Sin

"I know - from experience - how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones."

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory p. 130

Predictable Sin

"How often the priest had heard the same confession - Man was so limited he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you say and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt."

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, p. 97

Sin Covered Globe

"The glittering worlds lay there in space like a promise - the world was not the universe. Somewhere Christ might not have died. He could not believe that to a watcher there this world could shine with such brilliance: it would roll heavily in space under its fog like a burning and abandoned ship. The whole globe was blanketed with his own sin."

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory p. 29