The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
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Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
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Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time,… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
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... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
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While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy… — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
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