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“In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have ...”
“The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.”
“I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.”
“The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.”
“I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered wa...”
“You cant confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.”
“The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.”
“Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.”
“There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.”
“As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.”
“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
“The museums in childrens minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horrorto protect the children from eternal grief.For my own part, though: It would have been catastrophe i...”
“It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.”
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with i...”
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the centr...”
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miser...”
“How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”
