Caedmon School Quotes & Sayings

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. — Alice Temperley

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance. — Russell D. Moore

Whether I will live a long time or a short time, I'm alive now, at this moment. What I want is to know that there are other things to hope for besides length of life. What I want to know is that it isn't necessary to turn away from thoughts of suffering or death but neither is it necessary to give these thoughts too much time and space. What I want is to be intimate with the knowledge that life is temporary. And then, in the light (or shadow) of that knowledge, to know how to live. How to live now. — Irvin D. Yalom

The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son. — Billy Graham

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences. — Iyanla Vanzant

About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason. — Lauren Willig

Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it. — Daniel Vlcek

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. — Gloria Steinem

is, we have a duty to accept on faith, but also a duty to weigh and judge. Once you insist that some mundane thing was actually the miraculous hand of the gods, why not treat everything that way? When you start finding messages from the heavens in your breakfast sausages, you've thrown aside your responsibility to use your head. — Scott Lynch

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny. — Joseph Campbell

God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation. — Hilary Mantel

I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am. — Laura Bush

If people had more and better sex and felt less guilty about it, we'd live in a much better world. — Tiffany Reisz

Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of "savage" societies were "almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated modern mind is the very mainstream of practical religion." Tylor wasn't saying that savages lack morality. He stressed that the moral standards of savages are generally "well-defined and praiseworthy." It's just that "these ethical laws stand on their own ground of tradition and public opinion," rather than on a religious foundation. — Robert Wright