One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced it is not the normal human condition. We shall be sorry to have abandoned a little too quickly the institutions that were set up by our parents and grandparents to protect themselves against a return of the bad old world. Because the bad old world can still come back to haunt you.
Israel today is bad for the Jews.
I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.