“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes

The Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The second stanza is also found in James Aldrich, A death-bed.

“Veins full of disappearing inkVomitting in the kitchen sink.<BR”
Fond Farewell.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

Truman Library address (2006)
Context: My friends, our challenge today is not to save Western civilization — or Eastern, for that matter. All civilization is at stake, and we can save it only if all peoples join together in the task.
You Americans did so much, in the last century, to build an effective multilateral system, with the United Nations at its heart. Do you need it less today, and does it need you less, than 60 years ago?
Surely not. More than ever today, Americans, like the rest of humanity, need a functioning global system through which the world’s peoples can face global challenges together. And in order to function more effectively, the system still cries out for far-sighted American leadership, in the Truman tradition.
I hope and pray that the American leaders of today, and tomorrow, will provide it.

“I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.”
After being being asked how he felt of his own play, Wimbledon Final 2004.
Source: Piers Newbery (2004) " Federer fights back to retain title http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3865037.stm news.bbc.co.uk, July 4, 2004

360 Doctrines and Comprehensive Theories, Union of Civilizations

Journal of Discourses 22:44 (February 6, 1881)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399.

Eastern View of Economics http://web.archive.org/web/20150906075839/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3607

"This Is Not a Test".
She & Him : Volume One (2008)