A Quote by Bernard Lonergan

Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

Bernard Lonergan

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Bernard Lonergan
Canadian - Philosopher
December 17, 1904 - November 26, 1984

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David Carradine

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Madeleine L'Engle

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

Uri Geller

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

Francis Spufford

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Indira Gandhi

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George MacDonald

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Delmore Schwartz

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David Berg

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Ayrton Senna

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ian Bogost

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Gloria Steinem

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