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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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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…
— Henry George
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
— Italo Calvino
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Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking…
— Unknown Author
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed…
— John T. Flynn
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Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most…
— Michael Chekhov
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to…
— Rowan Williams
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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there…
— E. M. Forster
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…
— Sri Aurobindo
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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst…
— Roland Allen
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Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and…
— Umar
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