“I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of… — Michael O'Brien Defeat Copy Share Image
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth. — Michael O'Brien Freedom Copy Share Image
Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love. — Michael O'Brien Cannot 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… — Michael O'Brien Believe 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… — Michael O'Brien Choice 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… — Michael O'Brien Author Copy Share Image
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable -… — Michael O'Brien Across 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… — Michael O'Brien Case 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… — Michael O'Brien Cinema Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Always Copy Share Image
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never… — Michael O'Brien Acting Copy Share Image
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to… — Michael O'Brien Actions 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… — Michael O'Brien Any Copy Share Image
We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.'… — Michael O'Brien Adam Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Believing 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… — Michael O'Brien Evil 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… — Michael O'Brien Abstraction Copy Share Image
Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us,… — Michael O'Brien Both Copy Share Image
