When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Interpretation
The quote criticizes hypocrisy in religious practices and moral behavior.
Frank Sinatra's quote highlights the contradictions in how people often engage in immoral behaviors while seeking forgiveness from a higher power. This reflects a deep skepticism about the honesty of moral values professed by individuals and institutions, suggesting that superficial piety cannot mask true character or intentions, especially when it comes from those who claim to uphold certain ethical standards yet engage in debauchery.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of authenticity in personal beliefs and actions.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.
And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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