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The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.

E. Young Commentary: Daniel (Geneva Series of Commentaries)

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

Jay Roach

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Commentaries on Living 1

Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t take long after the war to see that the dire prophecies had failed. It became clear that Western ...

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The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

If God be denied, then His sovereignty and infallibility accrue to other agencies.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall; And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's the Tempest

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Commentaries on Living 1

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Enhanced Version

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)

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Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers