My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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