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Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.
I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.
To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.
When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf
I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.
The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.
I don't give my 100 per cent to any man.There should be an element of mystery left in the relationship to make it more fun.
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery.
There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.