After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
A. J. JACOBSTaking 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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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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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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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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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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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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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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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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