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" I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "

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" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

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" Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. "

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" Being Irish, I always had this love of words. "

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" Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. "

" When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. "

" That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? "

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" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' "

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" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "

" You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. "

" Joy is the serious business of Heaven. "

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" Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. "

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" There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite. "