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• We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

  John Owen

  Worship, Christ, Holy

  John Owen (1790). “An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations”, p.57

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• Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Treasure

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Age, Population

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.7, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. ... Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody can tell to look at you. Nobody.

  Elliott Merrick

  Sadness, Men, White

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• If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

  John G. Lake

  Love, Son, Compassion

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• Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

  Sallust

  Wise, Common, Goodness

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• In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

  Cassandra Clare

  Darkness, Add, Fiction

  "Exclusive Interview With Cassandra Clare!". www.thefandom.net.

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• And you, whiner, who wastes your time
  Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
  What evil, what unspeakable crime
  Have you made your life worth?

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Evil, Earth, Waste

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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, Heart, Men

  CARL SANDBURG (1954). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS”

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

  William Kittredge

  Crazy, Believe, Trying

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• Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

  Michael Faraday

  Son, Giving, Beloved

  Michael Faraday's letter to Auguste de la Rive, 1861.

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• I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Dog, Eye, Dark

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• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

  Victoria Alexander

  Suicide, Grief, Firsts

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• To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

  D. James Kennedy

  Religion, Atheism, Way

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• It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

  Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

  Christian, Religious, Blood

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• The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Country, Hunting

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

  Mitt Romney

  Becoming One, America, Darkness

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

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• I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.

  Mark Strong

  Years, People, Family And Friends

  Source: collider.com

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• Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

  Sam Kinison

  Attitude, Voice, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.

  Judith Butler

  Track, Speech, Violence

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• Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Mean, Issues, Dying

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• Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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