Medieval Era Sayings

#1. So much, then, for the "mystery" of how Muslim culture was somehow lost or left behind. The notion that in the medieval era Islamic culture was advanced well beyond Europe is as much an illusion as recent ones about an "Arab Spring." The Islamic world was backward then, and so it remains.

Rodney Stark

#2. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#4. I don't eat anything new unless I've eaten it before

Homer Simpson

#5. This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

V.S. Carnes

#6. You can't pay enough money to ... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Winona Ryder

#7. Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

Francois Delsarte

#8. The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.

Robert E. Webber

#9. Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

William Shakespeare

#10. Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Eric Hoffer

#11. We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

John Piper