“The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about ...” — John McGahern Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.”

“I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.”

“When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.”

“We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.”