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Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but. . . we still have you, and you still have us.

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Galileo Galilei

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

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Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven, Scripture, Heavens

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Nature, Dark, Moon, Night, Earth

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Believe, Harmful, Orthodox, Soul, Souls
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