I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that it is not so much a question of finding the right place, the right time, the ideal marriage.… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.” — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love. — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth. — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source -… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
