Brideshead Revisited - Faith Flashcards
To know…
And love one other human being is the root of all wisdom
Sebastian’s faith…
Was an enigma to me at that time, but not one which I felt particularly concerned to solve [..] the masters who taught me Divinity told me that biblical texts were highly untrustworthy
Oh dear,
It’s very difficult being a Catholic
He’s all twisted inside.
He wanted to be a priest, you know
He’s [Bridey] miserable,…
She bird-happy; Julia and I are half-heathen […] I wish I liked Catholics more
The poor have always been…
The favourites of God and his saints, but I believe that it is one of the special achievements of grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included
We must make…
A catholic of Charles […] and we had many little talks […] she delicately steered the subject into a holy quarter
There trod the grim invasion…
Of trader, administrator, missionary, tourist […] to turn from the sunlit door and lie alone in the darkness, where the impotent, painted deities paraded the walls in vain, and cough his heart out among the rum bottles
It seems to me that without…
Your religion Sebastian would have the chance to be a happy and healthy man
But I was as untouched…
By her faith as I was by her charm: or rather, I was touched by both alike
She’s a very…
Sick woman
There was this faint…
Shadow on her that unfitted her for the highest honours; there was also her religion
He doesn’t seem to have…
The least intellectual curiosity or natural piety […] “I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it”
Poor booby
Vs.
God forgive me!
It’s rather a pleasant change…
When all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself
I sometimes think…
When people wanted to hate God they hated mummy
Bridey thinks…
He has a vocation and hasn’t. I used to think Sebastian had and hated it - but I don’t know now
And I’ve been punished…
A little for marrying Rex […] now I suppose I shall be punished for what I’ve just done […] part of a plan
All in one word, too,
One little, flat, deadly word that covers a lifetime […] living in sin, with sin
Mummy dying…
With my sin eating at her, more cruelly than her own deadly illness
No one is ever…
Holy without suffering
Then I knelt, too,
And prayed:”O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin […] I suddenly felt the longing for a sign, if only courtesy,if only for the sake of the woman I loved […] so small a thing to ask.
Lord Marchmain made…
The sign of the cross […] the veil of the temple being rent top to bottom
The avalanche…
Was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mound glittered and lay still in the silent valley
A small red flame […]
which the olds knights saw from their tombs, that flame burns again for other soldiers […] I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones
