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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Often, I hear my ideas are more incomprehensible than not.
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.
You cannot die. My energy will return to where it came from, part of a massive, incomprehensible universal web of energy.
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!
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 language of nature.
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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 threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
For me, it is utterly incomprehensible how people share their private life, from truly confidential and intimate things, indiscriminately with thousands or even millions of people.
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 know that one is immortal.
When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.
The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.
When I was still playing with dolls, I became aware of this terrible and incomprehensible thing for me: My father was not treated the same as others; we are not treated the same as others.
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
