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John McGahern

"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."

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"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."

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Donna Grant

"Look to the Lord and the power of His grace."

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Donna Grant

"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

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Donna Grant

"Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice."

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Donna Grant

"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."

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Donna Grant

"Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently."

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Donna Grant

"Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell, mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write."

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Donna Grant

"Christians are the hope of any country."

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Donna Grant

"Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns..."

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Donna Grant

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

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Donna Grant

"Any bridge you refuse to burn gives Satan an invitation and re-entry point into your life."

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John McGahern
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."

Attitude

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John McGahern
"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."

Difference

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John McGahern
"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."

Cultural

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John McGahern
"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."

Advice

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John McGahern
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."

World

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John McGahern
"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners."

People

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John McGahern
"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."

Reflection

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John McGahern
"Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church."

Gratitude

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John McGahern
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

Reading

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John McGahern
"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."

Religion

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