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«In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.»
Author: Alfred A. Montapert
(Author)
| Keywords:
almost all, drilled, drilling, go deep, gusher, investment, operate, operate on, operations, paid off, pay off, sources, supernatural, supply, Texas
«There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe»
Author: Ethan Allen
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apprehensions, concerning, Considering, contributed, delude, deludes, deluding, mistaken, originates, revelation, supernatural
«Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural»
«Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.»
Author: Therese of Lisieux
| About:
Love,
Prayer
| Keywords:
aspiration, composing, directed, expands, glance, recite, recited, recites, reciting, sentences, supernatural, supernatural being, The Others, understands, unites
«Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
reflects, supernatural, supernatural being
«I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.»
«Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
incomprehensible, miraculous, supernatural, supernatural being, The Church, unknowable, unreasonable, vacuum
«Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
domain, Real Genius, supernatural, supernatural virtue
«I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Almighty, attribute, contest, interference, My Country, probable, reflect, supernatural, supernatural being, the Almighty, tremble
«One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberate, farther, hears, howls, orderly, primitive, shiver, shivering, shivers, sinks, supernatural, supernatural being, terror
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