Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
- Michael Novak
Truth, Judaism, Christians, Covenant
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
- Michael Novak
Work, Other, Against, Remarkably
In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
- Michael Novak
Time, Before, After, Simultaneous
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
Always, Last, Everlasting, Vigilance
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 On, Going, Bleak
Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
- Michael Novak
Rock, Entitled, Even, Rock Stars
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
- Michael Novak
Judaism, Christians, Too, Utopian
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
- Michael Novak
Doing, Citizen, Very, Sovereign
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
- Michael Novak
Movie, Last, Pope, Portrayed
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
Tyranny, Been, Very, Societies
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak
Love, Happiness, Willingness, Love Is
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
- Michael Novak
Freedom, Individual, Individual Freedom
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
Here, Conscience, Atheists, Prior
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Michael Novak
Cry, Will, Poor, Enter
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
Minds, Creator, Judaism, Empowered
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
- Michael Novak
Know, Utopia, Disbelieve, Oneself
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
- Michael Novak
Direction, Liberty, Universe, Moves
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