Top 1200 God And Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and is not and cannot be the object of any detached 'scientific' contemplation. Heidegger's critique of onto-theology is also driving a wedge between speaking of God and the aims of science - not so as to get rid of God but rather to free God from a false objectification.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.

It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

When you're in nature, inevitably your video is going to involve nature.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.