It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.
[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.
Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.
I don't like people talking bad about me, I get hurt so precisely I don't end up saying that for others.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. ' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world. ' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.