"This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping..."

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Source : John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#Christian Quotes #Doors Quotes #Locks Quotes

“Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.”
“Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
“I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.”
“Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.”
“You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs...”
“The phrase â€˜popular scienceâ€™ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
“When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...”

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