Author: Roland Merullo

Cites

• Bible (1)
  • IN: American Savior (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have dealth with great things that I do not understand.
    FROM: Bible, Book of Job 42:3, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Benjamin Spock (1)
  • IN: The talk Funny Girl (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    FROM: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, (1946), Book, US
• Ruth Benedict (1)
  • IN: The talk Funny Girl (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our children are not individuals whose rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies... They are fundamentally extensions of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority.
    FROM: NULL, (1934), Book, US
• Julian of Norwich (1)
  • IN: Vatican Waltz (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
    FROM: Revelations of Divine Love, (1670), Book, UK
• Rev. Thomas Keating (1)
  • IN: Vatican Waltz (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An important fruit of contemplative prayer is to be purified of our childish ideas of God. As our idea of God expands, there is no word, no way, no gesture, that can articulate it anymore. Hence we fall into silence, the place we should have been in the first place.
    FROM: Intimacy with God, (1994), Book, US
• M. Scott Peck (1)
  • IN: Vatican Waltz (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some who have been called to grace may wrestle for years with their fearfulness before they are able to transcend it so as to accept their own godliness.
    FROM: The Road Less Traveled, (1978), Book, US
• James Baldwin (1)
  • IN: Dinner with Buddha (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
    FROM: Nobody Knows My Name, (1961), Book, US