“Pretribulationism, Midtribulationism, and Posttribulationism. “Pretribulationism” is a distinctively dispensationalist idea. Pretribulationists believe that before the “tribulation” Christ will come part-way from heaven… — Jonathan Menn Copy Share Image
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a nature girl, though for some reason he wanted her to be. He wanted her to be a lot of… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“One way to understand one's true nature is by going back in time to one’s earliest memories, the roots of one’s mind.… — VD Copy Share Image
Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“I see us as all sitting around naked, shivering, in a huge circle, looking up as the sky turns black and the… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Following nature means following the facts. It means getting the facts about the physical and social world we inhabit, and the facts… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature. I am also stressing the fact that love… — Seth Copy Share Image
Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I didn’t mean to go after him, but no one was doing anything, and I’m probably the only one here who’s actually… — Heather Davis Copy Share Image
“I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Nurse' couldn't be construed as laughing at the characters. You can't do something about mental illness without being genuine about the characters.… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
You find that our great conservation heroes tend to be people who had a radical engagement with nature. That involvement... breeds in… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“What is the harm, ye ask, in not distinguishing oneself? If we do not distinguish, we get beyond our own nature, away… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
![“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is…” quote by Iain Pears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f8/iain-pears-9652_absurd_men-prefer-the-foolish-belief-and-the-pa_2814739.png)
