Comprehended Quotes

49 quotes by 47 authors

A comprehended god is no god. — Saint John Chrysostom
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… — Joseph Addison
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life… — Norman Cousins
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have… — Herman Melville
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline… — C W Ceram
A comprehended God is no God at all! — Gerhard
It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity… — Herman Bavinck
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,… — Carl Jung
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and… — Frederick Law Olmsted
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect… — Arthur Symons
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. — Robert Henri
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that… — Maya Angelou
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law â€“ insofar… — Geoffrey Hodson
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow… — Philibert Joseph Roux
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better. — Eudora Welty
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though… — Saint Augustine
[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also… — Pope Dionysius
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the… — Herman Bavinck

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