Michael O'Brien Quotes

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• Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only…
• A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his…
• Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
• ...life without coffee is not really life.
• 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 imagination…
• My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of…
• Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.
• If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our…
• It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the…
• Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
• The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness…
• Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our…
• Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all…

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