"Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work."

-- Pedro Poveda Castroverde

#Thinking Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”
“Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
“If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”

Source : 'The Soldier' (1914)
“By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.”
“The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”
“I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?”
“Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.”

Source : Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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