Quotes About Natural

Geology is intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as history is to the moral. An

We must face up to the truth that the call of Christ does set up a barrier between man and his natural life. But this barrier is no surly contempt for life, no legalistic piety; it is the life which is life indeed, the gospel, the person of Jesus Christ." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

When the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, and when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else. The mark of mature students is that most of the time, they don't do something else. They're just here, living their life. Nothing special.

Democracy calls for the understanding, recognition, and universal practise of social laws,—laws which are "natural," like those of physics and chemistry; but your religion—and your education, too— taught Authority—not real law.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

There was a deceptive air about her that fascinated him; she was natural yet beguiling, and he'd calculated that copulation with her would be a refreshing development, that she would bring something to his sexual intercourse that had been lacking for a long while. By doing nothing at all, she formented a diverse jumble of sentiment that had him craving more than a heedless carnal encounter. Perhaps his heart had not turned to stone, after all.

know, it's kinda nice to have some people in here who died of natural causes. Every once in a while, an inexplicable murder can brighten your day. But enough is enough, you know what I mean?

Can't this creature just hang out at a hospital, eat up the souls or essences or whatever of people who die naturally?" For a long moment Kesselring simply looked at him. "It's evil," he said finally. "That's its whole purpose in being here. To do evil.

The MOSQUITO... bites the 1st time as sharp and natural as red pepper does.

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

...there is no such thing as infinity in any of the natural resources of the earth.

Trees are the fairest ornaments of nature.

Someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. There come great eruptions and revolts, great dark ravages, and above all, a joylessness. A great, bleak joylessness. Everything that is natural brings joy.

I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.

The best way to encourage more of the behavior you want is to create the conditions in which that behavior will arise naturally. This is absolutely true of the questioning required for process improvement in a workplace.

Elsewhere, Schmemann puts it beautifully: Christ came not to replace "natural" matter with some "supernatural" and sacred matter, but to restore it and to fulfill it as the means of communion with God.

Even extraordinary circumstances could seem perfectly natural, simply because they were as they were; and in that case the awareness of their extraordinariness only dawned when others found them extraordinary.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.