Quotes by Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

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History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and f — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; .. — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change a — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Feelings trap us in the self, Tony dear. Doing a thing because you feel wonderful about it—even a work of charity—is in — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Like the rest of Holy Week, Easter is also a terrific story. It starts as tragedy: the hero broken and bloody, against a — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
It was a music of the spirit, seeking peace, not emotional release, expressing the hunger of the soul rather than the he — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
The only way to know God, the only way to know the other, is to listen. Listening is reaching out into that unknown othe — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Remember: God's grief at the unspeakable things we do to one another is beyond measuring, but so is His mercy. It might — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Needing attention is a p-p-powerful force in the world, isn't it?""Absolutely. Most people would think of it as a very n — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
The spiritual muscles I hadn't used for decades began to acquire some tone, and since they were Catholic muscles too, it — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
If my belief in the God-force-principle-thing had faltered from time to time, it was completely reaffirmed that morning — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul