J. F. Powers

“The eye of God is on the sparrow, but you have to patch your own roof.”

“He had never been a man to think of the past. It was not a place he could go.”

“The world, which was not the Church, was the enemy.”

“Fear is the wolf at the door.”

“A man should not be denied his destiny.”

“In my job, you're a hero one day and a heel the next.”

“Nothing is ever final.”