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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

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

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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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John McGahern
"I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years."

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John McGahern
"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

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John McGahern
"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."

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John McGahern
"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book."

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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."

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John McGahern
"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."

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John McGahern
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."

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John McGahern
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."

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John McGahern
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."

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John McGahern
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."

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