Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
SINCLAIR LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The 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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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