Michael O'Brien Quotes

• Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

  Michael O'Brien

  Song, Love Is, Greed

  Michael O'Brien (2017). “Island of the World: A Novel”, p.7, Ignatius Press

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• 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 O'Brien

  Fire, Dwelling Place, Darkness

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• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  Michael O'Brien

  Powerful, Emotional, Media

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• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

  Michael O'Brien

  War, Liberty, Acting

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• 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 O'Brien

  Spiritual, Integrity, War

  Michael David O'Brien, Michael O'Brien (1998). “A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• ...life without coffee is not really life.

  Michael O'Brien

  Coffee

  Michael O'Brien (2017). “Island of the World: A Novel”, p.471, Ignatius Press

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• Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

  Michael O'Brien

  Effort, Survival, Saws

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