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

#endurance #feel #going #happier #holding

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ↗

— Michael Novak

#happiness #love #love is #sacrifice #willingness

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

#always #everlasting #every #founders #got

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy. ↗

— Michael Novak

#even #privacy #rock #rock stars #stars

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

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

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant. ↗

— Michael Novak

#christians #covenant #depends #first #jews

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

#any #been #ever #get #just

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God. ↗

— Michael Novak

#before #every #eyes #god #moment

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. ↗

— Michael Novak

#condition #default #free #history #human