A Woman in the House Quotes

“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.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“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.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“He could hear Fr. Stephen’s voice. “Do not ask God to do for you what you can do for yourself.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“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.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House

“God was never closer to him, never more real, than when Stephen spoke of God, or when he remembered Stephen speaking of God.”
― William Edmund Barrett, A Woman in the House