God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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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.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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