Helen Bryan > Quotes

“Oliver was beginning to think too many church rules got in the way of Christianity.”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us. And yet the church sows dissention and bloodshed.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“To be certain of something, he thought, even in the most horrible circumstances, was strangely comforting. Like being in quicksand and suddenly finding a rock under your feet. He offered up a silent prayer of thanks.”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“because I wish you to record every word in the Chronicle, to bear witness to the inhumanity and cruelty that women suffer.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“The English understand the nuance of insult better than any other race”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“the world had enough trouble without insisting all worship God the same way.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“it confirmed Mother’s secret conviction that the world had enough trouble without insisting all worship God the same way. There was room before the Throne for everyone who served Him—Baptists and the Hindus, Seventh Day Adventists, Muslims and Jews, as well as Catholics.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“Since the earliest days of Christianity our order has born witness to a female tradition of spirituality that men of the church have suppressed and replaced with doctrines that refashioned God and religion in their own image. Centuries ago, the Emperor Constantine called disputing bishops to the Council of Nicea to agree on church doctrine. By consensus, and one curious result, Mary the mother of Jesus was declared the ever-virgin mother of God—despite the fact that Jesus never claimed divinity for himself, and our Foundress was living proof to the contrary regarding Mary’s perpetual virginity.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“the baby, and for you. I think it is in your interest to take your vows and”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“the”
― Helen Bryan, The Valley

“occupants, and forced the cabbies to drive to Trafalgar Square, where a number were subsequently arrested. “See”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“rank or fortune. Sophia need not marry to acquire a title or, indeed, distinction in name. The Graftons predated not only the House of”
― Helen Bryan, The Valley

“Surprising aptitude for it, though you wouldn’t think it to look at her, pretty little thing like that.”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“woman is powerless against the might of the church and secular authorities who will declare her mad or weak or both to justify their disposal of her.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“He was”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“We have always held the Prophet Muhammad in great respect, and like both Jews and Muslims, the first Christians attributed all things to God’s will. We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us. And yet the church sows dissention and bloodshed. And we must do what we can.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“Let the men deal with business. It was all they were good for.”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“Sobremontes made their home. My mother”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“nuns. Their evil design against”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“The two men and a woman who interviewed her had even asked how she thought women might best fit into the organization. Frances had said earnestly that in many ways they could be more useful than men, because women were chameleons; it was so easy to change how they looked by changing their clothes and hair. A girl could look anything between fifteen and fifty, pregnant, fat, thin, ugly, pretty, or sick, while men were harder to disguise. Also, in her experience, men usually assumed that women weren’t capable enough to do anything particularly important, so they were less likely to be conspicuous and get caught. And of course they could get round men without them noticing. Even Germans.”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“were wives of the remaining members of Joe Lightfoot’s Eighth Air Force unit, college friends from the Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama area who had joined up together in”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“She reads Latin easily, but more importantly she will understand how it points to those shared beliefs between Jews and early Christians, and later Muslims, that should be a basis of peace, not persecution, between the different faiths.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“reads Latin easily, but more importantly she will understand”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“Smugglers”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“Gentlemen are generally happiest to hear themselves speak. It never really signifies what a woman says in company.”
― Helen Bryan, The Valley

“scabies, she was sure of it. The child with the cough didn’t sound at”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“dimmed”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us.”
― Helen Bryan, The Sisterhood

“cramped”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides

“have”
― Helen Bryan, War Brides