"They lay quiet for a while in the hut. The priest thought the lieutenant was asleep until he spoke again. 'You never talk straight. You say one thing to me -- but to another man, or a woman, you say, "God is love". But you think that stuff won't go down with me so you say different things Things you'll know I`ll agree with.' 'Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether -- God is love. I don't say the heart doesn`t feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us -- God`s love. It set fire to a bus in the desert, didn`t it, and smashed open graves and set the dead to walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.'" (Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, Penguin, 1982, 199-200.)
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