Incomprehensible Quotes
233 quotes by 197 authors
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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
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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