Incomprehensible Quotes

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to… — Jorge Luis Borges
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable… — Blaise Pascal
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they… — Dalai Lama
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering… — Winston Churchill
The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected… — Eckhart Tolle
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose… — Prentice Mulford
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful… — Rudolf Steiner
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
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
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge… — Christian B. Anfinsen
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to… — Eugene Ionesco
The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or… — Gerd R. Puin
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you… — Walt Whitman

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