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A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who… — Gerhard
We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are… — Wolfgang Smith
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of… — Mortimer Adler
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering… — Edgar Allan Poe
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something… — Mircea Eliade
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. — Henry David Thoreau
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. — Pope Benedict XVI
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent… — Nancy Gibbs
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. — Jock Sturges
A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how… — John L. Parker Jr.
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Greatâ€™s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay… — Charles C. Mann
And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new… — Chester Bowles
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in… — Paul David Tripp
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense… — Steven Johnson
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. — Margaret Chan
A poetâ€™s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but… — Walter Martin
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weaknessâ€”and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears,… — Sydney J. Harris

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