Book Quote by John Daniel Download Open image ““The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”” — John Daniel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books God Heavens Nature Philosophy Scroll Wisdom
“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, what more could you want? A little garden to amble about in, and infinite space to dream in. At his feet, whatever could… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.” — Hark Herald Sarmiento Copy Share Image
“the Creator of all things is looking throughout the whole earth for a certain kind of heart.” — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...” — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect on. At his feet… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its charm and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Sky-bound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.” — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken. — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image