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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
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"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."
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"BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community."
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved."
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"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."
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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
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"It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world."
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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."
Life
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
Discipline
"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."
Soul
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
Soul
"In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
Emotion
"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
Men
"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."
Religion
"Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent."
Work
"One best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
Success
"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad."
Psychology
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