Books Quote by John McGahern

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in the Christian…

— Paul Scalia

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into…

— Frank Peretti

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

— Max Lucado

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance,…

— Patricia Rozema

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel…

— Howard Nemerov

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

— Julianna Baggott

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it…

— Starhawk

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

— David Rockefeller

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

— Julianna Baggott

“The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and…

— Michael Green

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the…

— James Lecesne