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The Lilies of the Field QUOTES

The Lilies of the Field QUOTES

1 " The padre, that Father Gomez, he will be very happy that you have come back to those nuns," the man behind the counter said.
"Why should he be happy?"
"He will say that it proves a religious thing."
"What religious thing?"
"Faith. It is a word for what is unreasonable. If a man believes in an unreasonable thing, that is faith. It is not reasonable that you should come back to this place and work for nothing. Nobody believed it. You have come back. "

― William Edmund Barrett , The Lilies of the Field

2 " I'm Homer Smith."
Mother Maria Marthe formed his name silently with her lips, then uttered it as it translated in her mind: "Homerus Schmidt."
"Oh, ja! Schmidt!"
Broad smiles broke across the faces of the three women. This was something they could understand, a stranger named Schmidt. "

― William Edmund Barrett , The Lilies of the Field