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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler…
— Aristotle
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It…
— Herbert Hoover
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False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm…
— Chael Sonnen
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Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives…
— Sarah Palin
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I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who…
— Andre Ward
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and…
— Matt Shea
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Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be…
— Matt Shea
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There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be…
— Vincent de Paul
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The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed…
— Isaac Asimov
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