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“Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.”

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Irvin S. Cobb was an American author known for his humorous and satirical short stories. His works often depicted everyday life with social satire and humor, which were well-received by readers. more

“True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.”

Men World Self Turns Lord Creation Endeavor Farms Godliness Tenants

Author:William Penn

“I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures will be experienced, and a care felt in us that we do not lessen that sweetness of life in the animal creation which the Great Creator intends for them under our government.”

Believe Government Care Spirit I Believe Felt Animal Creation Creatures Creator God Love Tenderness Sweetness Sweetness Of Life

Book:A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman

Source: A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman

“As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.”

Song Creation Color Flower Bird Shining Creator Kingdoms Insects Summertime Cuckoos Bird Song

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.”

World Seems Father Strong Forget Creation Let Me Rulers

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an "I", to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.”

Men World Doe Reason Spirit Subjects Creation Objects Divine Conscious Regard Spirit Of God

Author:Emil Brunner

“Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.”

Knows Way Stills Found Creation Taught Glory Infinite Majesty

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.”

World Made Creation Made It

Book:The Structure of Christian Ethics

Source: The Structure of Christian Ethics

“What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.”

Men Creation Strange Creatures Nests

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice.”

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