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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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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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"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
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"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."
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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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"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."
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"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
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"I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths."
Connection
"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
Family
"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
People
"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
Father
"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."
Life
"Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do."
People
"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper."
Love
"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."
Heart
"But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home."
Home
"That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost."
Men
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