Quotes from Michael Novak
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
- Michael Novak
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
- Michael Novak
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
- Michael Novak
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
- Michael Novak
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
- Michael Novak
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
- Michael Novak
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
- 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
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
- 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
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
Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak