“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Not...”

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and ...”

“If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.”

“Leave! Hazel Motes cried. Go ahead and leave! The truth dont matter to you. Listen, he said, pointing his finger at the rest of them, the truth dont matter to you. If Jesus had redeemed you, what d...”

“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.”

“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”

“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”