A Quote by Saul Bellow

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Saul Bellow

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Age Confusion Era Ideological Phenomenon Present Principal Turmoil

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Saul Bellow
American - Writer
June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

R.J. Rushdoony

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Thomas Gray

Worship will never end; whether there be buildings, they will crumble; whether there be committees, they will fall asleep; whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age; but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away.

N. T. Wright

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Joni Mitchell

The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

James Hillman

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

Ross Douthat

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Moses Hess

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

The post-Reagan era has been defined by overspending as the result of ideological overpromises.

Anthony Scaramucci

People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.

Christine McCormick Day

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Matthew Underwood

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Patricia J. Williams

At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

Chuck Todd

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

Whit Stillman

Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.