"It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse...."

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Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

Irving Kristol

#Spiritual Quotes #Ironic Quotes #Church Quotes

“Itâ€™s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.”
“Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.”
“How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?”
“All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 34-36, Chorle and Byrde, 1922.
“No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.”
“I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.”
“The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.”
“I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.”

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