Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
A. J. JACOBS
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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