Words to blog by:

"My thoughts do not aim for your assent - just place them alongside your own reflections for a while." - Robert Nozick (1938-2002), philosopher.

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire." - Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk and writer.

"Being myself a disciple of the Federalists, I respect their practical wisdom." - Russell Kirk (1918 -1994), American writer and conservative theorist.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Quote of the day: George Washington on religious pluralism

"Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to Heaven, which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception."

- George Washington (1732-1799), American Founding Father, Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, Aug. 15, 1787, quoted in The Founders on Religion:  A Book of Quotations, edited by Jaqmes H. Hutson (Princeton:  2005), pg. 193.
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  1. Enjoyed reading your blog(s)-and will be back..
    C-CS

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