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“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.”

Knows Men Ideas Science Imagination Existence Principles Imagine Conditions Events He Man Contrary New Ideas

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

Knows May Law Certain Order Known Conditions Higher Ordinary Miracle Contrary Superiors Inferiors Laws Of Nature

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.”

Humans Poverty Conditions Dignity Contrary Gods Will Human Dignity Scandalous

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.”

Should States Rights Society Conditions Position Demand Bases Fundamentals Democratic Privilege Contrary Inequality Consistent Democratic Rights

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.”

Needs Universe Conditions Fine Balance Contrary Being True Strings Print Truest Qualifications Footnotes Too Good To Be True Strings Attached Fine Print No Strings Attached

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

Way Want Giving Littles Art Helping Evil Lost Conditions Ought Disease Affair Contrary Grants Permit Passages Obstinate Tenacious

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“I agree with God’s Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.”

Situation Conditions Circumstances Agree Contrary Disagree

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.”

Conditions Glory Bottom Rate Extremes Contrary Height Saviour Indignity

Author:Robert Boyle