"Then again I asked him: 'Supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said "It's going to rain," would that be bound to happen?' 'Oh, yes, Father.' 'But supposing it didn't?' He thought a moment and said, 'I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it.
Lady Marchmain, he doesn't correspond to any degree of paganism known to the missionaries."
Father Mowbray in Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
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