Scott M. Morris Quotes & Sayings

Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, perusing the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters routinely and with glee. He enjoyed brilliant heretics as only the confidently faithful can, seeing in Gibbon the inspired rantings of a cheerleader working himself into a frenzy for a losing team, getting especially rabid come the dreaded fourth quarter, when Jesus begins running up the score. — Scott M. Morris

Darl sat very close after a second round. Taftly had not developed a plan for such good luck and it showed. Everything she told him was exactly right in the way that nitrous oxide is exactly right. — Scott M. Morris

His toes groped out awkwardly as if they were odds and ends hastily collected from some discount charnel house. As a child, they'd curled down in sleek harmony. Where had his good toes run off to? — Scott M. Morris