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Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming… — Boyd K. Packer
I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in… — Susan Sarandon
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein
In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able… — John Daido Loori
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. — Nella Larsen
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no… — P.J. O'Rourke
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In… — Thomas Sowell
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?Â In the faithÂ of the New Testament it is central.Â The love of God, the taking… — J I Packer
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of… — Gerda Lerner
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities… — Thomas Merton
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. — Kenneth Rexroth
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is â€˜an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.â€™ Here… — George Frederic Watts
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… — Willa Cather
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. — Linus Pauling
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford
I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the… — Anders Behring Breivik
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that… — James Hutton

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