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John J. McNeill Quotes

1920–2015 United States

John J. McNeill (1924 or 1925 – September 22, 2015) was a Catholic priest, psychotherapist and academic theologian in the United States, with a particular reputation within the field of queer theology.

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One's whole life can be caught up in this attitude with the result that the quality of life is destroyed. The high-school student waits for graduation; the college student waits for graduate school; the graduate student waits for a job; the worker waits for a vacation; the vacationer waits to go back to work; the veteran worker waits for retirement. Our whole life can be spent waiting for what comes next. Then death intervenes and in a way it can be said that we never really existed, because we never found time to do something for its own sake; that is to say, we never played.

Taking a Chance on God (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John J. McNeill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.