#natural

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

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#completely #different #economy #even #give

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ↗

— Count Basie

#definite #fast #had #i #jazz

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. ↗

— Michael Behe

#avoid #conclusions #must #often #said

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#anything #arise #biological #complex #function

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding

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