"No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge."

-- Mark Lilla

#Religious Quotes #Squares Quotes #Long Quotes

“Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian,”
“Those who deserve love the least need it the most.”
“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”
“["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.”
“I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.”

Source : "To Lucasta, Going to theWars" l. 11 (1649)
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

Source : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
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