Sedgley Armchair Quotes & Sayings

Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin". If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. — John Paul Warren

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this. — Fareed Zakaria

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order. — Albert Einstein

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense. — Robert Graham

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. — Adam Gopnik

Economists and psychologists get confused when they are asked 'out of syllabus' questions by life! — Saurabh Sharma

Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat. — Bun B.

Parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. — Danielle Monsch

In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to — Kay Ryan

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC. — Andrew Sullivan

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. — Ibn Al-Farid

I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust ... What terrible karma those Jews mustve had ... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for ... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices. — David Loy

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater. — Flannery O'Connor

His foe was folly and his weapon wit. — Anthony Hope