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Michael Novak
American
Philosopher
Born:
Sep 9
,
1933
Died:
Feb 17
,
2017
Christianity
Christians
Even
Every
God
You
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We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Michael Novak
Hope
Holding
Bleak
Feel
Look
Lord
Trusting
Going
Endurance
Holding On
Happier
Really
Things
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Happiness
Love
Love Is
Sacrifice
Feeling
Willingness
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Michael Novak
You
Liberty
Will
Long
Lose
Every
Guard
Our
Would
Minute
About
Price
Always
Got
How
Wondered
Your
Vigilance
Founders
Everlasting
Last
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
Michael Novak
Liberty
Universe
Direction
Moves
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
Michael Novak
God
Christianity
Gave
Our
Minds
Ability
Judaism
Empowered
Lord
Question
Us
Creator
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Michael Novak
Work
Democracy
Noise
Political
Other
Our
Remarkably
Institutions
Well
Political Institutions
Against
Each
Designed
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Michael Novak
Will
Those
Enter
Kingdom
Cry
Heaven
Poor
Who
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Michael Novak
Holding
Society
Our
Those
Atheists
Civil
Proof
Civil Society
Sacred
Prior
Midst
Inalienable
Ground
Even
Conscience
Here
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Michael Novak
Freedom
Christianity
Individual
Individual Freedom
Idea
Make
Functions
Universal
Jewish
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
Michael Novak
Christianity
Too
Jews
Hopeful
Unrealistic
Judaism
Turn
Utopian
Christians
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
Michael Novak
Truth
First
Believe
Jews
Must
Judaism
Covenant
Depends
Christians
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
Michael Novak
History
Tyranny
Rare
Free
Society
Most
Been
Condition
Very
Human
Default
Societies
If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
Michael Novak
Life
You
More
Through
Take
Been
Get
Any
Just
Where
After
Next
Your
Ever
Second
Position
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