How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"It's a strange, poor population God has in his kingdom, frightened, cold, starving…" (1.4.1.8)
Fowler's complaints with Catholicism are not original. Like many others, he cannot reconcile a loving God with the prevalence of suffering in the world.
Quote #5
"If I believed in any God at all, I should still hate the idea of confession. Kneeling in one of your boxes. Exposing myself to another man. You must excuse me, Father, but to me it seems morbid – unmanly, even." (1.4.1.22)
By the novel's end, Fowler hasn't stepped any closer to belief in God, but he has perhaps begun to review his antagonism toward confession. He longs for somebody to whom he can apologize for his wrongdoing.
Quote #6
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bamboozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers. (1.4.2.86)
Leader-writers are editorialists or opinion writers.