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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Frank McCourt
"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast."
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."
"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."
"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."
"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."
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