Austin O'Malley Quotes
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
O'Malley, Austin. Keystones of Thought. Devin-Adair Company, 1914.
For years people have noticed that many of the rich are not very deserving people by charater, talent, training of other virtues. However, if one believed in a beneficent God, this was hard to explain. One solution was to conclude that God did not value riches very highly.
This is the quotation from the Koran which on the minds of some Muslims justifies morals police, guardians of public morals and the like which are created in some Islamic societies.
The modern Islamic interpretation of this statement is no corrupt sovereign can be removed without a divine edict -- in other words, he ceases to rule only upon his death, because he does not abandon his palace unless he is on his way to the grave. The result is that many Muslims do not countenance revolution.
Austin O'Malley is a Gaelic footballer who plays for St Patrick's and the Wicklow county team. O'Malley won the Dublin Senior Football Championship with UCD in 2006. The Louisburgh native was involved in a transfer process which brought him to Dublin club St Vincent's. The story was leaked to Dublin newspaper, the Metro. Austin works as a teacher in St Benildus College, where he uses the strength and ambition that he gained from years on the training pitch to discipline and motivate the pupils. In 2011 he joined Wicklow town club St Patrick's and the Wicklow county team. In 2014 he transferred back to his native club Louisburgh in Co Mayo.
