Animals Quote by John Calvin

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

— Martin Luther

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

— C. S. Lewis

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me?…

— Philip K. Dick

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

— Friedrich Schiller

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

— Girolamo Zanchi

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all…

— Jerry Bridges

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

— John Flavel

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self…

— C. S. Lewis

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are…

— Albert Einstein

Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?

— Josh Charles

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator…

— Umberto Eco