"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

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Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

Christopher Morley

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“He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.”
“There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.”
“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”
“These people make my family look easy to get along with.”
“I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated."”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
“I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.”
“I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.”

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