To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.