Quotes from 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
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
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Michael Novak
If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
- 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
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
- Michael Novak
To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
- Michael Novak
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
- Michael Novak
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.
- Michael Novak
The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
- Michael Novak
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
- Michael Novak