You can't think that God wanted to save your father from doing it and didn't, unless you think that the devil was stronger than God.

You can't think that you are more loving than God; and if He is so loving, He couldn't let any one do what wasn't just the best thing.

I tell you, it's a love that's awful to think of that will go on giving men strength to do wrong until through the ages of hell they get sick of it, rather than make them into machines that would just go when they're wound up and that no one could love." "Do they know all this in church, Bart ?" Ann asked.

It had never occurred to her before to test her beliefs by this standard, but now it seemed necessary; she felt after tradition instinctively.

The nakedness of Bart's statements seemed to want tradition for a garment.
Bart's words were very simple.