Quotes About Natural

Our challenge is to unmask the Divine in the natural and name the presence of God in our lives.

while we are used to assuming that there's something natural or inevitable about the existence of corporations, in historical terms, they are actually strange, exotic creatures. No other great tradition came up with anything like it.170 They are the most peculiarly European addition to that endless proliferation of metaphysical entities so characteristic of the Middle Ages—as well as the most enduring.

Do not force things.... Can you afford to be careless? So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. How else can you carry out your task? It is best to leave everything to work naturally, though this is not easy.21

The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform individual diversity into social unity could only lead to the totalitarian state.

Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?

It is as easy for the imagination to form monsters and to join incongruous shapes and appearances as it is to conceive the most natural and familiar objects.

The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

In a spiritual sense, carnal people cannot grasp the significance of God's Word unless they turn to God, accept His Word by faith, and seek spiritual understanding. "The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Romans 8:7). "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Corinthians 2:14).

Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!

I had that Restylane stuff. It looked fake to me. I didn't like that. But it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!