Quotes of: Christian-nation Keyword

My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's...

Adolf Hitler

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, tho...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never" [....

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national ...

Distraction

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seem to have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not hav...

ABC's of Indian National Education

Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and ...

The Happiness Manifesto

I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had both been born in Cyprus. The most extreme Irish Rep...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic integrity and us getting there together. But the minut...

How I Left the National Grid: A post-punk novel

The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all the conditions for strong public support that were evident in the early years of the program remain intact. ...

Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks

There, in the unconscious, we sleep upon the psyche's oceanic floor, together like some vast bed of kelp, each wavering strand an individual American, swaying in the currents of national suggestion. In the form of a giant Portuguese man-of-war, our g...

Rainbow Pie

Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria's finest was s...

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the r...

Linus Pauling on Peace: A Scientist Speaks Out on Humanism and World Survival

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affec...

Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing app...

One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.

Christianizing the Roman Empire:

Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.

Die Hochstaplerin

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

The Essence of Christianity

Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one

Fifty Shades Freed

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The Four Loves