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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
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"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."
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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
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"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it."
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"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."
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"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
Being
"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."
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"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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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
Church
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."
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