Quote by James McGreevey
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a mortal sin subject to damnation. – James McGreevey

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Im on the board of a national group called Faith in America. Its designed to fight religious-based bigotry. – James McGreevey

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Faith
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I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts – protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. – James McGreevey

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Politics
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You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. – James McGreevey

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. – Swami Vivekananda

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I havent lost faith in human nature and I havent decided to be less compassionate to strangers. – Armistead Maupin

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Faith

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. – Timothy Radcliffe

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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No Child Left Behind requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. – Dianne Feinstein

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion

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