As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
Horace Bushnell
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
William Clark
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
Garrett James Hardin
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William Seward Burroughs
To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly nature and a fair balance of cash in hand.
Samuel Butler
Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.
Nicolas Chamfort
Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!
Nicolas Chamfort
Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
Nicolas Chamfort
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas Carlyle
Nature admits no lie.
Thomas Carlyle
For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator