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It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems… — Eric Ludy
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture â€” of sinfulness and hell and Godâ€™s notable severity â€” is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man… — Matt Chandler
Itâ€™s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror. — Guillermo del Toro
Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is. — Judith Merril
I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..Thereâ€™s no way to tell anyone who hasnâ€™t been through it, thereâ€™s no way to explain it to… — Edie Sedgwick
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha
I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in underneath your skin… — Marya Hornbacher
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the… — Mo Yan
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented… — Stephen Reinhardt
I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that… — Linda Blair
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether… — Eckhart Tolle
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. — Boyd K. Packer
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. — Egon Friedell
There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people… — Frankie Sue Del Papa
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to peopleâ€™s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of… — Robert Farrar Capon
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that… — John Berger
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming… — Adam Zagajewski
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — John Frederick Nims

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