Ulysses.

I have embarked upon James Joyce's epic Ulysses, and am already engrossed. Widely acknowledged as the greatest novel ever written, it tells the story of a single day in early 20th century Dublin, and features the same lead character, Stephen Dedalus, as in Joyce's brilliant A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (wherein Stephen loses his faith). Here is the first of what will likely be several passages that are worth putting on the blog:

"You (Stephen) wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it's injected the wrong way."