Quotes by Paul Bailey

“Even if negotiations play a crucial role in a healthy relationship, one-sided compromises become unhealthy when they undermine a person’s core beliefs and values. Remember, compromising is a form of balance. Without it, no relationship can ever work out at all. If you want to succeed in what you do, learn how to compromise with the people around you.””

“The Corinthians are identified as “Those who were made holy” and who were “called out as saints [i.e., holy ones]” (1:2). They were getting drunk at Holy Communion and shouting insults at each other. One of them was sleeping with his mother-in-law. The prophets (preachers) were all talking at once in their worship services and some of the women were chatting and not listening to anyone. They had split into factions, and some thought that polished language was more important than historical realities like the cross. Others denied the resurrection. Yet Paul called them “saints.” Remarkable! Clearly, for Paul, “a saint” meant a person who had received the Holy Spirit and not a person who had reached some undefined stratospheric level of piety. The troublesome Corinthians were saints!””

“One way to refocus your attention in a positive way is to consider first what you will gain from working towards and achieving your goal.””

“In baptism we believe that God acts on us, the font is represented as a womb from which a new person emerges (born again). The cleansing of baptism is a reality, in it God washes us clean of our sins, and as Saint Paul says we put on Christ (Gal.3 v27).””

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“If you want to succeed in what you do, learn how to compromise with the people around you.””

“All of this was recognised by John Paul II who wrote: “By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed…a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One World Government is inevitable.””

“I'm pretty much awake now." (P) "The last time I said that, I passed out in the bathtub." (I) "I remember that. Neil covered you with towels and said that he found a mermaid." (P) "You were so beautiful, Mummy. Like Ice Bird when he freezes the pigs." (N) "Thank you, sweet." -- Ingrid, Paul and Neil.””

“she looks to the keeper as though to say she has made a mistake, that she has wandered by error into the land of the dead and must return, but the keeper simply tells her to close the zipper and move onto the next body. She kneels before the next body bag and unzips and whispers this is not my son, moves from body to body, seeing how the regime has left its mark on each face and neck, that murder has a smell of antiseptic, and each time the mouth whispers, this is not my son, the mouth whispering it again and again, this is not my son, this is not my son, this is not my son, this is not my son, and she looks to the keeper who is looking at the time on his wrist and she unzips another body bag saying, this is not my son before she has even taken read of the face, this is not my son, this is not my son, this is not my son, this is not my son, seeing before her the face of Bailey serenely broken, the skin smelling of bleach, and what was bent inside her breaks so that a wretched howl escapes her body and she takes his face into her hands, stares into the face of the dead child seeing only the living child, and she wishes she could die instead, smoothing her hand along the downy face, the hair still wet with blood.””