"Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour."

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Source : Thomas Dubay (1999). “The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet”, p.42, Ignatius Press

Thomas Dubay

#Mystery Quotes #Splendour Quotes

“Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!”
“We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.”
“Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.”

Source : Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins
“Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.”
“I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.”
“Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.”
“The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.”
“The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.”

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