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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough."
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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this."
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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
Christian
"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
Home
"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."
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"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
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"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."
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"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
Society
"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."
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