"There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

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“You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.”
“Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.”
“It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.”

Source : "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.
“This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.”
“Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign â€” a kind of death-rattle â€” when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
“The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God”
“The main problem with pacifism is that it doesnâ€™t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that theyâ€™re convinced it does.”

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