Catholicism Quote by Edna O'Brien Download Open image “Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.” — Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholicism Catholicism Founded Fear Fear Punishment Irish Irish catholic Irish Catholicism Punishment Religion Stone Fear Stones
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live… — Bible Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Forgive my friends and me for every time we have looked at someone different and considered her or him to be of lesser quality.… — Jos Chp 2 Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
