Top 7 Quotes by Michael OBrien

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

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

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

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

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

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