"Because faithfulness is not a human question, but……" — Sebastian Barry
"Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one."
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Sebastian Barry
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24 Quotes by Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry has 24 quotes on this site.
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it…
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A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner…
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The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets.…
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush,…
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I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your…
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Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced…
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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that…
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I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must…
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There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
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After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously…
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For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets…
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That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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