Top 42 Michael D. O'Brien Quotes
#2. He's amazing. He's a different kind of saint, maybe a tougher kind than the Pope.
Michael D. O'Brien
#3. Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.
Michael D. O'Brien
#4. We labor to preserve the life of the body, but ultimately life and death are out of our hands. If the patient lives awhile longer, a certain kind of good will result. If God ordains that this is the time to die, another kind of good will result.
Michael D. O'Brien
#5. 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
#6. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Michael D. O'Brien
#7. 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
#8. Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael D. O'Brien
#9. Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.
Michael D. O'Brien
#10. In this world are many people who do not master their bodies. Such people say that no one can tell them what to do, not even God, and they think that in this way they have no master. In the end they become slaves to anything.
Michael D. O'Brien
#12. Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness.
Michael D. O'Brien
#13. 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
#14. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?
Michael D. O'Brien
#16. To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.
Michael D. O'Brien
#17. They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.
Michael D. O'Brien
#18. I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.
Michael D. O'Brien
#20. Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.
Michael D. O'Brien
#22. Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.
Michael D. O'Brien
#23. All grief would slip away and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.
Michael D. O'Brien
#24. We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.
Michael D. O'Brien
#25. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
#26. Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio - the union of true communion.
Michael D. O'Brien
#27. If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.
Michael D. O'Brien
#28. The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.
Michael D. O'Brien
#29. He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.
Michael D. O'Brien
#30. We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us
Michael D. O'Brien
#31. Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip.
Michael D. O'Brien
#33. [T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in.
Michael D. O'Brien
#36. Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.
Michael D. O'Brien
#37. Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton]
Michael D. O'Brien
#38. Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth ... It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
Michael D. O'Brien
#39. The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.
Michael D. O'Brien
#40. 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
#41. Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.
Michael D. O'Brien
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
