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Michael Hainey Quotes

Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will

Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will defeat your enemy with the one weapon that you have inside you that he cannot touch--truth.

Michael Hainey
Heart, Enemy, Triumph

Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.

Michael Hainey
Add, World, Creation
Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.

Michael Hainey
Circles, Sorrow, Needs
Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.

Michael Hainey
Taken, Mean, Past
Michael Hainey (2013). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Michael Hainey
Mother, Father, Self
Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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