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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- GK Chesterton
one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax
- Charles Dickens
I got here the same way the coin did.
- Cormac McCarthy
Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.
- Chip Ingram
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
- Carl Jung
What if he is the one who brought her to me?
- Chris Fabry
Now, in some cosmic act of God or coincidence, the girl had returned to me. Who was I kidding? There is no coincidence. There is punishment, retribution. Or perhaps love and mercy and grace. Which was it?
- Chris Fabry
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
- Henry A. Wallace
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
- Milan Kundera
We seem to crave privilege, merited not by our works but by our birth, by the mere fact that, say, we are humans and born on Earth. We might call it the anthropocentric - the 'human-centered' - conceit. This conceit is brought close to culmination in the notion that we are created in God's image: The Creator and Ruler of the entire Universe looks just like me. My, what a coincidence! How convenient and satisfying!
- Carl Sagan
When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.
- Carl Sagan
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.
- Herman Melville