#natura

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#creature #faith #god #god grants #grants

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#am #colour #deepest #dye #gratitude

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#driven #game #get #happens #matter

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#death #desirable #even #frequently #human

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #sea #supernatural #beauty

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#me #natural #people #pretty

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

Natural selection is anything but random. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#natural #natural selection #random #selection

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer