“‘But of course,’ she said, ‘it’s very unexpected for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle, but the gospel is simply a catalogue of
unexpected things. It’s not to be expected that an ox and an
ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest
things in the lives of the saints. It’s all part of the poetry, the
Alice-in-Wonderland side, of religion.’”

—Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945.