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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)

~ Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill Religion

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe.And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

~ Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill Books Irish Literacy

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

~ Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill Fear God Suffering

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another, they were marvelously inconsistent.

~ Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill Culture Medival Middle Ages
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