Michael Novak





Michael Novak

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Average rating: 3.83 · 252 ratings · 50 reviews · 96 distinct works · Similar authors
Washington's God: Religion,...
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
The Spirit of Democratic Ca...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions
Business as a Calling
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
No One Sees God: The Dark N...
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
Experience of Nothingness
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions
Tell Me Why: A Father Answe...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
On Two Wings: Humble Faith ...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
The Catholic Ethic and the ...
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993
The Universal Hunger for Li...
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
Toward A Theology Of The Co...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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“During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous attacks from within, from those who undermine the virtues of our people, doing in advance the work of the Father of Lies. “There is no such thing as truth,” they teach even the little ones. “Truth is bondage. Believe what seems right to you. There are as many truths as there are individuals. Follow your feelings. Do as you please. Get in touch with your self. Do what feels comfortable.” Those who speak in this way prepare the jails of the twenty-first century. They do the work of tyrants.”
Michael Novak

“Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.”
Michael Novak

“The choice to remain faithful to the drive to question (the fertile source of the experience of nothingness) brings with it an obscure joy. For to be faithful to that drive...is to be constantly expanding one's horizon, constantly losing one's life, and constantly regaining it. It is to be as alert to other persons, to situations, and to events as one can: to their fragility and terror, as well as to their obscure coherence and often veiled beauty. To be faithful to the drive to question is to accept despair as one's due, to accept risk as one's condition, and to accept the crumbs of discovery as joy. [...] The darkness is habitable...Those who accept the darkness as their lot are instantly secure, not through some newfound solidity but through the perception that insecurity is man's natural state, a truthful state, a healthy state.”
Michael Novak, Experience of Nothingness

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