"Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment."

-- Edna O'Brien

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“It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.”
“I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 137, 1895.
“It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.”

Source : Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.266
“The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.”

Source : Jerry Falwell (1982). “Finding inner peace and strength”, Doubleday Books
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media
“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.”

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