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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! Arthur Hertzberg

Poverty Country Revolution Assured Our Security Moral Would Never Reach Enactment Nonsense Were Very Wall Wall Street Going Social Roosevelt Depths Gamble Social Security Now Street

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. Arthur Hertzberg

Changes About Nobody Making Any Process Specific

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening. Arthur Hertzberg

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. Arthur Hertzberg

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. Arthur Peacocke

Good Selfish Humanity Values Sense Only Could Individual Stem Survived Personal Transcendent Social Urges Held Desires

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. Arthur Peacocke

Life Integrity Honesty World Pursuit Adult Adult Life Been Intellectual Western Decades Convinced Engaged Theology Certainly Many Now

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. Arthur Peacocke

God Natural World Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Those Emphasis Since Unveiled Sciences Revealed Accord Debates Processes Century Certainly Creator

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer

Religion Obedience Response More Like Friend Than Expert

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. Benjamin Jowett

God You Believe Say Must Spite Clergy

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. Benjamin Jowett

Personality Society Diminution Cost Won Achievements Rewards Which

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. Benjamin Jowett

Art Science Neither Logic Dodge Nor

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. Brooke Foss Westcott

Love Powers Another Test Suffer

The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her. Catherine of Siena

God Time Great Soul Better Space Honor Goodness Herself Virtues Remaining Lifted Towards Know Exercising Self-Knowledge Souls Yearning Very Begins Salvation Cell Order Ordinary Certain Who Her Desire

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee. Catherine of Siena

You Mind Build Inside Never Cell Which Flee Your

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. Charles Hodge

People Ruling Representatives Elders

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. Charles Hodge

Class World Men Every Solution Only Rational Fact Part Sin Undeniable Manifested Ages Deep Original Original Sin Universal Early

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. Charles Hodge

God People Christ Sense Our Ministers Civil Remark Divine Merely Powers Office Authority Ordained Which Derive Second Appointment

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. Charles Hodge

God Faith Knowledge Confidence Ultimate Ground

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole. Charles Hodge

Experience Church Analogy Intimate Individual Between Aggregate Whole Believer Believers

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