Sacramental Worldview Quotes & Sayings

A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist's claim that "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it" (Ps. 24:1), echoed in Paul's claim that in the Creator God "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). — James K.A. Smith

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. — Joan Rivers

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. — Heywood Broun

I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three. — Sue Margolis

What the hell is this stuff?" he muttered, frowning at the oily spot on the linen cloth. "Pearlman slathered it on me this morning."
"It's macassar oil. Gentlemen use it to keep their hair neat. Nicholas used it," she added pointedly.
"Well, tomorrow he's giving it up. I smell like a rotten apple."
"You do not. And I think it looks rather nice."
He sent her an incredulous look. "I look like an otter. And everything I put my head against gets greasy."
"That's why someone invented the antimacassar," she told him, almost smiling.
"The-aha!" He laughed as he made the connection. "Of course. First they invent something stupid, then something ugly to make up for it. We live in a wondrous age, Annie. — Patricia Gaffney

Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness. — Hermann Hesse

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. — Patti Smith

Without God life makes no sense. — Rick Warren

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. — Oscar Wilde

A tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living. — Daniel Quinn

God is already present in my life and all around me; prayer offers the chance to attend and respond to that presence. — Philip Yancey