Church Quote by John McGahern Download Open image “Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.” — John McGahern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Gratitude Upbringing
I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind… — Tony Finau Copy Share Image
My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that. — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not. — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I walk in a space of gratitude. I'm so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“…But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.” — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“McGahern still lives on and works a farm in Leitrim, and friends say that even though he has held high profile academic posts round… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
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… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image