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.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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