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Church Quotes by 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…
- Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
- I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
- 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…
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- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the… — William Shakespeare
- I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we… — Don Adams
- The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual… — A B Simpson
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of… — Rajneesh
- The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that… — Pope Benedict XVI