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"How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!" »anonymous
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"Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo." »George Bernard Shaw
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"natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study." »Francis Bacon
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"natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed." »Christopher Morley
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"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed." »Christopher Morley
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"theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing." »H. L. Mencken
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"theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." »Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death"
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song." »Luther
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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." »Walt Whitman
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"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked." »Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
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"theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." »Michael Horton
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"China and Africa have strong growing relationship; as China continues to grow, we will see the Chinese offer more infrastructure development to African governments in return for natural resources and farmland to support its vast population. It is a natural and mutually beneficial relationship." »Med Jones
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"The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth." »Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Cicero
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"natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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"The unnatural, that too is natural." »Johann von Goethe
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"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Being natural is simply a pose." »Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?" »Bette Midler
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"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." »Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"
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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law" »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." »Lisa Hoffman
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"Children are our most valuable natural resource." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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"Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton
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"It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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