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Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4) QUOTES

Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4) QUOTES

1 " Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can project his unbelief onto the cosmos? "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

2 " Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

3 " The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

4 " We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and blood. Our early martyrs were real men and women, with their own personalities, their flaws and their greatness. We are no different. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

5 " Así se prueba a un hombre. Si es honesto, intelectualmente hablando, reexamina sus opiniones y comienza de nuevo. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

6 " It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess.” “Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?” “Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon.” “Just as it should be. Commence. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

7 " un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

8 " sweetness on the tongue and a promise of scent on the night air. It was sensual in the best meaning of that word, saturating every sense at once, so that the flesh was known, finally, as a thing of such goodness that man blessed his Creator from morning to night for having made him. Here in this medieval town where once an extraordinary little fellow had burst forth with songs to God, as a passionate lover speaks to his bride, here the restoration of man to his own true home was no longer the dream of saints. It was the wedding feast. It was a word made flesh. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

9 " Every sin is a choice to turn a miraculous being into an object for consumption. It flattens the human person, one’s self and one’s victim, into a one-dimensional universe. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

10 " You are a fertile God. Many seeds are dropped into the soil. Many do not sprout. Yet beneath the appearance of waste nothing is wasted, nothing lost. Giant trees crash to the forest floor, decompose, and become the soil out of which the saplings arise. Similarly, in human affairs, movements are created, rise, do Your work in the world, decline, go back into the soil, and provide the rich humus out of which new life springs. Generations come and go. Sun and rain, winter and summer, seed time and harvest. Always Your Word remains constant. Your people are called over and over, generation after generation, back into this constancy, back to this mysterious fluid stability—the only security worth having. Can You not waste a little more time on us? "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

11 " Of course it's not right. The Cross isn't right. But our Lord took it and turned it into the great sign that the devil hates above all other signs. Each time we accept to bear that cross and be nailed to it, believing against all believing - when it's impossible any longer to believe because of our pain - that's when we defeat him. By the blood of the Lamb! "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

12 " Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

13 " La nación más culta y religiosa de Europa permitió que lo impensable creciera en su seno. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

14 " Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

15 " I’m a great fan of Chesterton, you know. He once said that he became a Catholic because we’re the only religion that sees no contradiction between a pint, a pipe, and a cross. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

16 " Pax et Bonum! "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

17 " Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

18 " My mind is reeling. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

19 " Ow, ow, ow, Billy hurt! Billy wanna go home! "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)

20 " As you know, Felix is a co-religionist of yours. He will be speaking on the spirituality of pan-mythology”, said the President. "

― Michael D. O'Brien , Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (Children of the Last Days, #4)