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 LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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