Donna Woolfolk Cross Quotes

#1. Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.

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#2. and the Daughter.

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#3. Truly Virgil was right: love was a form of sickness. It altered people, made them behave in strange and irrational ways.

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#4. There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

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#5. The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.

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#6. Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

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#7. Pope Joan was an excellent read.

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#8. To marry is to surrender everything
not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

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#9. Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

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#10. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

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#11. Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

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#12. Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

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#13. But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.

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#14. Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

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#15. primicerius? He was young, it was

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#16. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

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#17. She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

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#18. What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

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#19. Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?

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#20. She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

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#21. This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

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#22. It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

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