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“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”

Soul God Dream Law Strange Shadow And Love Breaths Chains Broke Cycles Life And Love Nursing Laws Of Life Sod

Book:Evolution: A Poem

Source: Evolution: A Poem

“A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.”

Way Giving Two Self Facts Problem Law Process Friendship Strange Truth Is Overcoming Difficulty Handle Subtle Better Than You Strengthening Self Giving

Book:The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

Source: The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”

Law Growth Growing Strange Grew Impulse Obeying

Author:Brian Aldiss

“It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?”

Thinking Knows Looks Doe Law Order Strange Rule Of Law Strange Things

Book:Voices of a People's History of the United States

Source: Voices of a People's History of the United States

“We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.”

Want Facts Law Universe Understanding Accepting Particular Strange Make Sense Features Laws Of Nature Brutes

Author:Sean M. Carroll

“It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.”

Mind Law Mother Passion Pieces Taught Strange Cost Glorious Psalms Love Passion

Author:John Ruskin

“God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.”

Humans May God Shows Seems Law Hurt Movement Divine Strange Creatures Perfection Essence Obedience Attributes Uprightness

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”

Thinking Trying Wells May Facts Past Law Strange Equal Degrees Fundamentals Opening Our Thoughts Backwards Metaphysical Opening Up

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

Men Light Earth Law Certain Courses Destiny Influence Events Strange Ordinary Seasons Mark Guides Comets Erratic Portents

Author:Bill Vaughan