7 Quotes by William Edmund Barrett

He could hear Fr. Stephen’s voice. “Do not ask God to do for you what you can do for yourself.

The padre, that Father Gomez, he will be very happy that you have come back to those nuns," the man behind the counter said."Why should he be happy?""He will say that it proves a religious thing.""What religious thing?""Faith. It is a word for what is unreasonable. If a man believes in an unreasonable thing, that is faith. It is not reasonable that you should come back to this place and work for nothing. Nobody believed it. You have come back.

Every day in your life is a day in school,” Father Stephen said. “One takes many things from a school but one attends primarily, in order to learn.

If you have a problem,” Father Stephen had said, “it was given to you for a purpose. You were meant to have it. Accept it and think about it.

God was never closer to him, never more real, than when Stephen spoke of God, or when he remembered Stephen speaking of God.

The voice of Fr. Stephen came to him across the years as it often did. He had been in despair one day at the monastery over a task given to him by an elderly irascible Monk. “There are impossibilities in your mind that not impossibilities in the small world of your living,” Father Stephen said. “Before you reject a task as Impossible, ask yourself why God presented you with this thing to be done.

I'm Homer Smith."Mother Maria Marthe formed his name silently with her lips, then uttered it as it translated in her mind: "Homerus Schmidt.""Oh, ja! Schmidt!"Broad smiles broke across the faces of the three women. This was something they could understand, a stranger named Schmidt.