Crossword-Solution: DISMAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But when God forgives, He forgives the most ignorant first--that is, the most remote from forgiveness--and makes, not Peter or Caiphas or the Centurion, but Dismas the thief, the firstfruits of Redemption.

Dismas said nothing, and steadfastly looked at the sky, which had not for a long while been so softly sunless as to-day.

Don't you see that when you have to strive and struggle for your little bit of life there isn't time to wait for the Messiah!" "That's just what I've believed for many a year and day," answered Dismas sadly.

And only he whom God sends can bring such a time." Barabbas pressed his face against the stone, and said with comfortable conviction; "We've only the life we have; there's no other." "If it was as you say," returned Dismas, "we must make this one life great----" "If there's no life to come," said Barabbas, "we must live this one out.

Your damnation, Barabbas, never! No Almighty God! Everything a dry, swarming dust-heap, and no escape! Frightful, frightful!" "Do you know, Dismas, your lamentations don't amuse me?" said the other, supporting himself on his hands and knees like a four-footed beast.