Quotes About Natural

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

God's supreme reason dictates the structure of both the supernatural and the natural order, since both reflect His eternal purpose. Truths about the first are revealed to us in the form of divine law, which means Scripture. Truths about the second are revealed to us through our senses, by means of the laws of nature.

In some ways, Bacon also looked beyond Aristotle. First, he believed that no natural or physical science could get anywhere without a firm foundation in mathematics. He called it the "gate and key" to all science.

For medieval thinkers, this was an eye-opening revelation. Side by side with divine truth, Averroës was saying, lay another truth, that of the natural world. This insight earned Averroës an admiration equaled by no other living non-Christian. It is why Dante praises him in his Divine Comedy and why Raphael gives him a prominent place in his School of Athens.

Strato the Physicist. His appointment sent a clear signal that the natural and physical sciences would be the Lyceum's focus in the future, just as ethics and formal philosophy would be the future focus at the Academy.

Locke's Two Treatises of Government revealed that the political universe is run the same way, through natural laws that guide men's behavior in the same sure way that they guide the movement of the planets.

Locke's natural liberty includes liberty of thought, since reason is another of God's gifts, including our thoughts about religion. This made Locke the first great advocate of religious toleration

Holiness requires as great, or almost as great, an effort; but holiness works on lines that were natural once; it is an effort to recover the ecstasy that was before the Fall. But sin is an effort to gain the ecstasy and the knowledge that pertain alone to angels, and in making this effort man becomes a demon.

Reality is thought of as a duality, operating within the human world, in terms of natural/supernatural, spatio-temporal/the eternal, the order of nature/the realm of faith, the natural(or physical)/the historical, the physical-and-biological/mind-and-spirit.

It is an astonishing feat of deciphering that we should have been able to infer an orderly scheme of natural knowledge from such indirect communication.

Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune but not the player. Trinculo might have been referring to modern physics in the words: 'This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody.

L'uomo crea eufemismi e cortine di fumo per negare le leggi naturali. E anche per negare l'infame condizione che gli è propria. E ogni risveglio gli costa i duecento morti di un aereo che si schianta, i duecentomila di uno tsunami o il milione di una guerra civile…»

Para Falcó, el mundo era un lugar sencillo: un equilibrio natural de adrenalina, riesgos, fracasos y victorias. Una larga y excitante pelea. Una breve aventura entre dos noches eternas.

Se ha combatido mucho por la libertad, en nombre de ella o en busca de ella y, sin embargo, nadie sabe cómo definirla porque ese estado de ausencia de coerción o restricción impuesta sobre nosotros no ha existido nunca y no puede existir. Si alguna sociedad intentara lograr un orden de perfecta libertad saldría de la historia para recaer en el orden natural, con todas sus limitaciones y riesgos.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

I believe that all people are born with natural gifts, whereas Christians receive spiritual gifts at their new birth (conversion).

church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

the evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers in their evolutionary natural environment and evolutionary natural way of life, shaped in humankind's evolutionary history over millions of years, widely engaged in fighting among themselves. In this sense, rather than being a late cultural 'invention', fighting would seem to be, if not 'natural', then certainly not 'unnatural' to humans.

Settling your mind in its natural state entails releasing all grasping, grasping onto the future, and the past, grasping onto cogitations about the present. Letting your awareness rest in its own place, naturally luminous and still.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

To me, singing is like talking. If it ain't natural, it ain't right.

As I accumulated dozens of new habits—mostly tiny ones—they combined to create a transformation. Sustaining all this did not feel hard. Pursuing change in this way felt natural and oddly fun.

you start eating like a person who goes to the farmers' market, your brain begins guiding you in the direction of a coherent identity, and adding pumpkin seeds to your salad doesn't sound like such a crazy thing anymore; it sounds natural.