Quotes About Father Damien

#1. We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;

Mark Twain

#2. Between these two, where was the real self? It came to her that both Sister Cecilia and then Agnes were as heavily manufactured of gesture and pose as was Father Damien. And within this, what sifting of identity was she? What mote? What nothing?

Louise Erdrich

#3. If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.

Louise Erdrich

#4. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.

Alice Cooper

#5. I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

Jim Capaldi

#6. As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

Damien Hirst

#7. I believe that there are dark and difficult days ahead, and you won't be playing for an increase in company dividens - you will be playing for the survival of a nation, and if you fail, it will mean the end of the world you know. You will not suffer alone -

Wilbur Smith

#8. I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

Spalding Gray

#9. I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Father Damien

#10. I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots ... This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

Father Damien

#11. Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.

Father Damien

#12. I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

Father Damien

#13. The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

Robert Muller

#14. Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

Father Damien

#15. The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. Traveling is more fun
hell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

Bill Bryson

#17. The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength ... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

Father Damien