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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.


Frederick Buechner

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ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
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MALCOLM X A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
CHARLES DICKENS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
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DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
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CHARLES DICKENS Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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EDWARD SAPIR Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical q...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE