Pastoral Resources

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.