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Quotes by Journalist
"The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity."
"I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends."
"He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture."
"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
"It may be a penny for your thoughts, but it is now a quarter for your voice."
"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."
"Spock's cool, analytical nature feels more fascinating and topical than ever now that we've put a sort of Vulcan in the White House."
"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."
"He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself."
"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married."
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
"One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all."
Food,
"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens."
"The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons."
"Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?"
"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"
"I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes."
"I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence."
"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."
"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."
"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."
"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
"Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus."
"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."
"The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other."
"The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective."
"There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday."
"There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for."
"Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?"
"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."
"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,
"Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies."
"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."
"Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays."
"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
"If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal."
"The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship."
"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."
"War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary."
"Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture."
"It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins."
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