Ross Douthat Quotes

#1. However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts is the kind of conceit that only, well, an intellectual could possibly believe.

Ross Douthat

#2. America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

Ross Douthat

#3. She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

Ross Douthat

#5. My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished.

Gena Showalter

#6. At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

Franz Kafka

#7. And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America's relentless appetite - for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger everything, and damn the long-term cost.

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#8. In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities' willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to speculation about what the demographer Philip Longman calls the survival of the godliest.

Ross Douthat

#9. Start the daily practice of joyful living.

Bryant McGill

#10. The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

Ross Douthat

#11. Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future.

Zig Ziglar

#12. Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.

Ross Douthat

#14. The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

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#15. Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.

Murasaki Shikibu

#16. What a society believes and teaches about the link between sex, marriage and procreation has major implications for how, when and whether people couple, marry and raise children, which in turn has implications for every other societal arrangement as well.

Ross Douthat

#17. And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#18. The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

Ross Douthat

#19. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

Ross Douthat

#20. You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

#21. Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Michael Medved

#22. To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.

Joseph Conrad

#23. Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

#24. As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

#25. Herr Thiessen is always pleased when the circus arrives in his native Germany, but this time he is particularly delighted that it has arrived quite near Munich, so there is no need for him to secure rooms in another city. Also,

Erin Morgenstern