The Power and the Glory to as a replicant later in the film) presents the novel as a gift to Ella, a young friend, exclaiming:""It’s very exciting. It’s about an outlaw priest who’s just trying to understand the meaning of being human... It’s one of my favorites, you’ll love it"". The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in
The Impostor (novel) The Impostor (novel) The Impostor () is a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a priest who loses his faith and sets out to rediscover his soul together with an elderly cleric. "Publishers Weekly" wrote in 1999: "Austere, intellectually challenging and, occasionally, achingly poignant in the tradition of French-Catholic mysticism, the novel achieves a certain quiet spiritual triumph, a faith-at-low-ebb form made popular in the English-speaking world by "The Power and the Glory"." "Kirkus Reviews" called the book "An often maddeningly discursive work that, nevertheless, accumulates great power in a devastating portrayal of