Creature Quotes

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Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be. — Edna O'Brien
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice… — C.S. Lewis
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of… — C.S. Lewis
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want… — Patricia Piccinini
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. — Thomas Carlyle
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way. — Mark Lynas
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as… — Helen Hunt Jackson
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. — Gregory Bateson
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of… — William Henry Hudson
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
Look at the animals roaming the forest: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them.… — Pelagius
To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a… — John Bunyan
Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation… — Charles Spurgeon
The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they… — William Gurnall
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all. — Nelson Algren
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. — Peter Benchley
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called… — Jean Renoir

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