Creature Quotes

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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
No free will of the creature can resist the will of God — Girolamo Zanchi
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of… — C.S. Lewis
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature… — R C Sproul
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live… — Teresa Medeiros
Prayer is the breath of the new creature. — Richard Baxter
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry,… — William Gurnall
Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can… — Charles Spurgeon
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,… — Henry David Thoreau
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that… — Charles Dickens
Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on… — Ray Lewis
Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the… — J. Oliver Buswell
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,… — William Cowper
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent… — Celia Thaxter
A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature. — M.F.K. Fisher
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare

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