In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.


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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL
May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD
The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD
Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD
Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD