What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and… — Janet Robertson Copy Share Image
Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive,… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep......And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her… — Morris Fishbein Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One night, we workers formed a circle around the tallow candle as it burned, allowing each other to bond by holding hands.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image