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Quotes from Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

1873–1947 United States

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Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

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