Yossi Klein Halevi quotes

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.
-- Yossi Klein Halevi

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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.