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Example sentences for "great mystery"

  • It is exceedingly wonderful, and constitutes a great mystery.

  • These Mantras constitute a great mystery of the Rishis and are the very highest of those which they silently recite.

  • Ye Rishis possessed of wealth of penances, I have told you in details what constitutes a great mystery.

  • When thou hast gained the Secret, then wilt thou learn the truth, and penetrate the veil of Great Mystery.

  • Great Mystery, the knife by which my bonds can only be severed.

  • O how would this make the gospel a great mystery to souls, and the redemption of souls a precious and wonderful work, if it were considered!

  • It is a great mystery to keep the right middle way.

  • It had been a great mystery, then, if God had been manifested in the nature of angels, a great abasement of his majesty.

  • The Indian believes that instinct comes more directly from the "Great Mystery" than reason even; why else does an animal or child show wisdom without thought?

  • The warrior merely turned toward him the filled pipe which he had been offering to the "Great Mystery.

  • I have made a great mystery of Thor, just for a lark, but the enmity and condemnation of the campus for him because he quit football suddenly, shows me that the time for skylarking is past.

  • You were brought to old Bannister by Hicks, who made a great mystery of you, so we knew nothing of you; but the fellows all thought you were willing to play football.

  • The more he sought the "Great Mystery" in solitude, the more gentle and retiring he became, and in the same proportion his courage and manliness grew.

  • He was fasting and seeking a sign from the "Great Mystery," for such was the first step of the young and ambitious Sioux [who wished to be a noted warrior among his people].

  • Thanks be to the 'Great Mystery,' I have been successful in the fortunes of war!

  • This mystery is that next to the mystery of three persons in one God; it is a great mystery.

  • There is a great mystery in the way of God with his people.

  • My friends, this is a great mystery, of which the wisest men as yet know but little, and confess freely how little they know.

  • That is a great mystery and a great glory: but that alone could not make man good, could not even keep him alive.

  • This is a great mystery, and one which people in these days are afraid to look at; and darken it of their own will, because they will neither believe their Bibles, nor the voice of their own hearts.

  • But here we stand on the threshold of a great mystery; for if angels bend over the mercyseat, desiring, but in vain, to read the secret of redemption, how can our finite minds grasp the great thought and purpose of God?

  • Never had prophet so prophesied before; never had mortal eye seen so clearly and so deeply into God's great mystery of mercy.

  • But when He became the Son of man He voluntarily assumed the needs of humanity; He emptied Himself, as the Apostle expresses a great mystery, as if for the time divesting Himself of all Divine prerogatives, choosing to live as man amongst men.

  • So that in sum, they seem to say the same that Paul doth, when he tells us, that “marriage is a great mystery, but he speaks concerning Christ and his Church.

  • Oakdale's Great Mystery," of which Hippy calmly admitted the authorship, proved to be a ridiculous travesty on a melodrama which the boys had seen the previous winter.

  • He imagines he is still 'Oakdale's Great Mystery.

  • We were taught generosity to the poor and reverence for the "Great Mystery.

  • Wahchewin was only a caller, but she had been invited to remain and assist in the first personal offering of Hakadah to the "Great Mystery.

  • Again they stood a few moments silently; then she drew a deep breath and began her prayer to the Great Mystery: "O, Great Mystery, we hear thy voice in the rushing waters below us!

  • With this and many similar explanations she wrought in my soul wonderful and lively conceptions of the "Great Mystery" and of the effects of prayer and solitude.

  • She was the spiritual teacher of the child, as well as its tender nurse, and she brought its developing soul before the "Great Mystery" as soon as she was aware of its coming.

  • Daily he meets the "Great Mystery" at morning and evening from the highest hilltop in the region of his home.

  • He stands naked and upright, both literally and symbolically, before his "Great Mystery.

  • The worship of the "Great Mystery" was silent, solitary, free from all self-seeking.

  • Her attitude and secret meditations must be such as to instill into the receptive soul of the unborn child the love of the "Great Mystery" and a sense of brotherhood with all creation.

  • The original attitude of the American Indian toward the Eternal, the "Great Mystery" that surrounds and embraces us, was as simple as it was exalted.


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