Top 23 Stephen Prothero Quotes
#1. Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
Stephen Malkmus
#2. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
Stephen R. Prothero
#3. Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
Stephen R. Prothero
#4. I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.
Steve Breen
#5. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true ... This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.
Stephen Prothero
#6. Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
Paul Theroux
#7. Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.
Judith M Bardwick
#8. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus
#9. At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.
Stephen Prothero
#11. There's always been a demeanor to Mekare,
Anne Rice
#12. Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind.
Yonason Goldson
#13. Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
Billy Joel
#14. One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.
Stephen R. Prothero
#15. With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be recognized for what it is: a way of being religious.
Stephen R. Prothero
#17. My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
#18. Please stop. Do not take me into your confidence, do not take me into your heart, for my own
cannot bear it.
Donna Russo Morin
#19. But even if religion makes no sense to you, you need to make sense of religion to to make sense of the world.
Stephen R. Prothero
#20. When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.
Jodi Picoult
#21. I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.
Donald Trump
#22. 1. I'm brilliant
2. I'm charming
3. I'm hung like a thoroughbred
4. I've stopped all philandering
5. I'm highly skilled, as you've learned the other night.
P.S. Stop staring at my hands. I know what you want me to with them.
K.A. Tucker
#23. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
Stephen R. Prothero
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