58 Quotes by Michael Novak

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    In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

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    Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

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    You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

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    Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

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    Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

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    Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

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