Quotes from Michael Novak
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
— Michael Novak
Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.
— Michael Novak
A man is too insignificant to be preoccupied with his failures. All of the energy he has is required for attending to the loneliness, the pain, the needs of others.
— Michael Novak
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
— Michael Novak
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
— Michael Novak
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
— Michael Novak
A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.
— Michael Novak
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak
Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak
To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
— Michael Novak