Meir Soloveichik Quotes
Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
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I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.
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Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues.
