A Quote by Jacob K. Javits
I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
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Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If my comic flavor shows there, I cannot be taken as a serious politician.
Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.
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