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As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this… — Thomas Merton
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of… — Thomas Merton
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an… — Hans Hofmann
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for… — Rajneesh
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in the Gospel that… — Pope Benedict XVI
If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth. — Jerry Falwell
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained… — Robert Owen
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong.… — Thomas A. Edison
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America… — Calvin Coolidge
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When… — Bill Moyers
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that… — John Shelby Spong
What is it men cannot be made to believe! — Thomas Jefferson
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another. — Harold S. Kushner
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. — Mother Teresa
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps… — Deepak Chopra
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the… — Charles Darwin
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

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