Luke Ford Quotes and Sayings
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Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everything we do affects other people. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus. Luke Ford | Refcard PDF ↑