"Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue."

-- Daniel Berrigan

#Issues Quotes #Connections Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“In my end is my beginning”
“It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.”
“Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.”

Source : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.69, Library of America
“The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.”
“Reagan 's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.”
“Truth is mighty and will prevail”
“Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1987). “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water”
“Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.”

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