Top 1200 Communion With Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

I think very early on, my sisters and I understood the value of nature and what it can do for us, and that we are part of nature. Even if we are all seemingly intelligent beings and we're at the top of the food chain, that doesn't mean that we have to remove ourselves from nature.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.