Pastoral Resources

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.