Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
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The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities.
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I think the message of peace is for everyone.
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Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
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Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
