Berrigan Public School Quotes & Sayings

Her way of being religious was as nonconformist as her nonreligious life had been. She was skeptical about many of the practices of the institutional church. She preferred to trust in the personal relationship she had grown to experience with God. This relationship transformed her ability to be in community and enabled her to see the essence of those around her: "The longer I live, the more I see God at work in people who don't have the slightest interest in religion and never read the Bible and wouldn't know what to do if they were persuaded to go inside a church."

For Dorothy [Day], the bread broken at Mass wasn't any more holy than the bread broken at shelters and soup kitchens. Church didn't happen in a building. It happened in the way people related to each other. Christ wasn't any more present in the liturgy than he was when on person listened with compassion to the pain of another. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

Be on as few pieces of paper as it is possible for a human being to be. — Lee Child

I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been a grim little church facing down musket fire and a cruel sea wind. — Frances Hardinge

We are too kind, too willing
too unwilling too
reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. — Carol Shields

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle. — Amit Ray

It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty. — Lois Lowry

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors. — Richard Armour

I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment. — Oliver Stone

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Mute Cyclops is the Eunuch King. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Those pissing contests are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows his weakness. A woman must needs piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule. And — George R R Martin

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. — Ronald Reagan

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something. — Henry Rollins

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. — George Eliot

Want a sugar cube? he asks in his old seductive voice. — Suzanne Collins