Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British author Monica Furlong.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Monica Furlong was a British author, journalist, and activist. She was born at Kenton near Harrow, north-west of London and died at Umberleigh in Devon. An obituary called her the Church of England's "most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period."
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.