Top 1200 Natural Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of course, know all these laws yet, but I believe that such laws exist. I do not, therefore, believe in the literal truth of some miracles which are featured in the Christian Scriptures, such as the Virgin Birth or water into wine. ... God works, I believe, within natural laws, and, according to natural laws, these things happen.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.

I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.

We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us.

Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

Well, let me just say that I condone violence in all of its forms.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

I'm a protein enthusiast, as it forms the foundation of our nutrition.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I wanted to put air in electronic music. I record the sounds of twigs, barks, and stones. I've always been obsessed with the idea of combining the natural and the man-made. It's not because I think the technology is crap, or that I'm trying to work against it, but that juxtaposition is truly beautiful. The question of what is natural and unnatural is very open.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.

The kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.