Michael Hainey Quotes

• Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will defeat your enemy with the one weapon that you have inside you that he cannot touch--truth.

  Michael Hainey

  Heart, Enemy, Triumph

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• Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.

  Michael Hainey

  Add, World, Creation

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.

  Michael Hainey

  Circles, Sorrow, Needs

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.

  Michael Hainey

  Taken, Mean, Past

  Michael Hainey (2013). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

  Michael Hainey

  Mother, Father, Self

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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