Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that’s too much reality for me to admit.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?" "First I need a virgin.
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well known and it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’t separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate their human and dog natures.
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.
There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.
Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.
Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
