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Right Rev. John Leonard, D.D., foi um padre nascido na Irlanda que serviu na Irlanda e na África do Sul. Nascido em Dublin em 15 de janeiro de 1829, ele se matriculou no St. Patrick's College, Maynooth em 1849. Foi ordenado padre em 1855 pelo Arcebispo de Dublin Paul Cullen.
“My fathering had always taken the form of a friendly cloud that floated across the lives of the children, and paused occasionally to cast a shadow. That they would turn out to have their own weather, and that I would profit by the climate, was an immense satisfaction.”
“Crossing color, class, gender, and generational lines, the communities of addiction and recovery are as democratic as America gets. Twelve-step meetings are in fact downright radical: nonprofit and non-hierarchical, with a fierce etiquette of listening to and caring about everyone who wanders into the rooms.”
“Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking.”
“Every fall I imagine once again that something wonderful will happen at a party. This is like imagining that the telephone book will prove to be a wonderful novel.”
“You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.”
“Monotheism was a terrible idea, leading directly to Lenin.”
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