Creatures Quotes

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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally… — Heber C. Kimball
Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures. — David Brainerd
Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God — Bonaventure
Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And… — Francis of Assisi
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. — George Bernard Shaw
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours… — Joseph Addison
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented… — Henry Fielding
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. — William James
Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God. — Johannes Scotus Eriugena
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.… — Arthur Eddington
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon. — Thomas Hartwell Horne
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which… — Philip K. Dick
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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