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“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.”

“For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.”

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Book:Real Presences

Source: Real Presences

“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.”

Believe Body I Believe Existence Brain Wonderful Mystery Conditions Possibility Development Conscious Accounts Fundamentals Including Inheritance Unimaginable Transcending

Author:John Eccles

“School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.”

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Book:Results: the key to continuous school improvement

Source: Results: the key to continuous school improvement

“The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others”

States Love Is Grace Mystery Conditions Development Oneself Separation Unlocking

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.”

Mind Believe Moving Law Existence Mystery Conditions Universal Enjoyable

Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

“There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.”

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Author:Roger Scruton

“We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”

World Able Ability Doubt Mystery Conditions Creation Humility Species Acknowledge Arrogance Awe Abandon Reverence Majesty

Book:The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.”