Brideshead Revisited - Faith Flashcards

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To know…

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And love one other human being is the root of all wisdom

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Sebastian’s faith…

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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

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Oh dear,

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It’s very difficult being a Catholic

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He’s all twisted inside.

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He wanted to be a priest, you know

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He’s [Bridey] miserable,…

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She bird-happy; Julia and I are half-heathen […] I wish I liked Catholics more

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The poor have always been…

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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

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We must make…

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A catholic of Charles […] and we had many little talks […] she delicately steered the subject into a holy quarter

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There trod the grim invasion…

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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

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It seems to me that without…

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Your religion Sebastian would have the chance to be a happy and healthy man

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But I was as untouched…

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By her faith as I was by her charm: or rather, I was touched by both alike

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She’s a very…

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Sick woman

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There was this faint…

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Shadow on her that unfitted her for the highest honours; there was also her religion

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He doesn’t seem to have…

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The least intellectual curiosity or natural piety […] “I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it”

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Poor booby

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Vs.

God forgive me!

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It’s rather a pleasant change…

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When all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself

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I sometimes think…

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When people wanted to hate God they hated mummy

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Bridey thinks…

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He has a vocation and hasn’t. I used to think Sebastian had and hated it - but I don’t know now

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And I’ve been punished…

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A little for marrying Rex […] now I suppose I shall be punished for what I’ve just done […] part of a plan

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All in one word, too,

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One little, flat, deadly word that covers a lifetime […] living in sin, with sin

20
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Mummy dying…

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With my sin eating at her, more cruelly than her own deadly illness

21
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No one is ever…

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Holy without suffering

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Then I knelt, too,

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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.

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Lord Marchmain made…

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The sign of the cross […] the veil of the temple being rent top to bottom

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The avalanche…

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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

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A small red flame […]

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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