Aetataureate Delusion Quotes & Sayings

If it is all up to me to live a consistently whole and healthy spiritual life, then the dry bones of my dry soul will not live. If it is all up to preachers like you and me to keep a local congregation alive in community and ministry, then we may as well close the doors right now. If it is all up to you, me and all the other preachers alive today to bring about a moral revolution breaking the chains that bind us, then our world is doomed. — Darrell W. Johnson

Nietzsche may have been accurately describing the feeble pietism that surrounded him, the saccharine portraits of Jesus from childhood, but he could not have been more incorrect in his analysis that as a religion of the "sick soul," the preaching of Christ was simply a message of resignation to the powers and principalities. On the contrary, it was the most radical renunciation of the herd mentality that keeps us addicted to the power brokers of this age. — Michael S. Horton

ONE OF THE STURDIEST PRECEPTS of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing. The months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor offer a rare exception to this axiom. During 1941, in the wake of that outburst of gaudy hopefulness, the World's Fair, a sizable portion of the citizens of New York City had the odd experience of feeling for the time in which they were living, at the very moment they were living in it, that strange blend of optimism and nostalgia which is the usual hallmark of the aetataureate delusion. — Michael Chabon

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. — Alan Moore

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party. — Artie Lange

Jeeves," I said, "listen attentively. I don't want to give the impression that I consider myself one of those deadly coves who exercise an irresistible fascination over one and all and can't meet a girl without wrecking her peace of mind in the first half-minute. As a matter of fact, it's rather the other way with me, for girls on entering my presence are mostly inclined to give me the raised eyebrow and the twitching upper lip. — P.G. Wodehouse

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them. — Rosamund Hodge

No one likes a soused vampire! — Katie MacAlister

That is the natural disposition of the sex; to disdain those who adore them, and love those by whom they are abhorred. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate. — Olivier Theyskens

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. — Felix Adler

Logen ambled over to him. If you're going to travel with a man, and maybe fight alongside him, it's best to talk, and laugh if you can. That way you can get an understanding, and then a trust. Trust is what binds a band together, and out there in the wilds that can make the difference between living or dying. Building that kind of trust takes time, and effort. Logen reckoned it was best to get started early, and today he had good humour to spare, so he stood next to Luthar and looked out at the park, trying to dream up some common ground in which to plant the seeds of an unlikely friendship. — Joe Abercrombie

The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one. — Loretta Chase

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore