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"We receive each subject of biography as a visitor from some other land."

"Whatever else the Bible may be, it is hardly offensive."

"More respectable Christians even pray the Lord's prayer without realizing they are praying for the Rapture."

The point of a “media event” is not simply that it is heavily covered, but that coverage is more important than what is officially going on.

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"The more different from 'us' the criminals are made to seem, in the more distant from 'average' Americans, the harder it becomes to cope with conditions that foster crime – unemployment, demographic imbalances, urban obsolescence, drug traffic, improper police administration. But, also, the more different the objects of fear become, the more useful they are politically."

The incumbents were free to attack "government" with relish not at all lessened by the fact that they were the government they excoriated. At regular intervals, as if waking from a trance, journalists discover that politicians become popular by attacking "politics," that the same people who say America is God's country lament that its administration is the source of evil.

"Journalists miss the point when they keep asking, after each new church scandal, if a preacher's fall has shaken the believers' faith. Sin rather confirms than challenges a faith that proclaims human corruption. The drama of salvation is played out against the backdrop of original sin.

"He had to forge a special language for himself, in the midst of his ordeal." On Gary Hart's attempts to explain his philandering, but true of all of us as we explained rather than repent of our sin.

Stressed, nervous, exhausted from fret, but this book is holding me through, keeping me grounded against the darting debt collectors, I’m going to finish this book today