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“The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.”

Needs Humans Eye Human Beings Seeing Creatures Invisible Visible

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”

Way Want Needs Humans Doe Wisdom Action Wise Exercise Creatures Capacity Harder Method Intelligence Intellect

Author:Krista Tippett

“There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.”

World Needs Behinds Struggle Creatures Like Me Redemption Purity

Book:King of Thorns

Source: King of Thorns

“The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.”

Men Needs Humans Spiritual Purpose Values Individual Situation Subjects Return Creatures Creator Psychological Spiritual Beings Spiritual Values

Author:Peter Drucker

“Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.”

Needs Made Helping Might Earth Order Evil Father Heaven Sin Grace Creatures Goodness Draws Resources Thee Sinner Heaven And Earth Augustine

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.”

Knows Needs Feels Doe Made Said Asks Father Prayer Information Creation Praying Creatures Likes God Love Invites Partnership Our Prayers Apostles Inviting God Is Love

Author:Philip Yancey

“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”

Way Needs Mean States Natural Wonder Rich Doors Inspire Ought Creatures Universal Affair Delight Creator Satisfied Savior Joyful Wholeness Employed Flourishing Natural Gifts Shalom

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.”

Thinking Knows Needs Should Wells Pay Attention Cases Environment Drama Directors Creatures Approach Pay Attention Treatment Cgi

Author:Brendan Fraser

“So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.”

Needs Long Past Law Worst Demand Creatures Victim Protection Sexist Bodyguard

Author:Warren Farrell

“I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

“Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.”

Needs Creatures Encouragement Need Encouragement

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.”

Men Needs Wells Religion Creatures Rage Physicians Monstrous Diseased

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.”

Needs Children Parent Natural Prayer Ability Creatures Creator Aids Reasonable Dependent Disposition

Book:Outlines of Moral Science

Source: Outlines of Moral Science

“No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.”

Needs Humans War Ends Earth Desire Hate Causes Creatures Revenge Desperate Total War No War Causes Of War

Author:Zelda Popkin

“I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.”

Knows Needs Believe Helping I Believe Know How Achieve Planets Creatures I Believe In Disappear Reaching Trends Destroying Reach Out Reverse Habitat

Author:Morgan Freeman

“We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.”

Needs Stills Seems Today Courses Fire Conditions Huge Creatures Ocean Scary Weather Breathing Dragons Dinosaurs

Author:Walter Lang

“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.”

Life Inspirational Needs Mind Firsts Kind Spirit Change Views Healing Creatures Transformation Notion Including Creator Insight Crucial Spiritual Transformation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.”

“Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.”

“When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Men Needs Years Made Running Evil Can Do Thousand Creatures Devil Machines Thousand Years Elbows

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature”

Needs Creatures Threatened Accord

Author:Christopher Ryan

“Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.”

World Needs Two Energy Hurt Wonderful Magic Planets Creatures Embrace Our Planet Living Creatures Magic Words

Author:Roger Caras

“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.”

“Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.”

World Needs Persons Soul Earth Joy Suffering Evil Bits Walks Perfect Amount Comfort Creatures Satisfied Craving

Author:Zeina

“Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.”

Knows World Needs Wells Views Vision Particular Creatures Prejudice Psychological Our World Personal Experiences World View Blinders

Author:Christina Baldwin

“Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Creatures

Author:Mark Twain

“There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.”

Needs Law Suffering Natural Expression Cold Creatures Hunger Nonsense Lions Natural Law

Author:Stendhal

“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”

“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.”

Needs Prayer Attitude Creatures Weakness Confession Helplessness Praying To God Dependency Acknowledgment God Prayer

Author:Arthur W. Pink

“We need to pray for our nation like never before, and then put legs to our prayers and preach the gospel to a sin-loving and Hell-bound world. To pray for America and at the same time ignore that command to preach the gospel to every creature, is nothing but empty hypocrisy. It is to honor God with our lips and have cold hearts that are far from Him. May He give us a love that moves us from the pews into the streets, and from our homes into our universities. God save us from the cozy comfort of lukewarm contemporary Christianity.”

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”

“If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.”

Ifs Men Needs Able Law Powerful Kindness Greater Creation Evolution Creatures Cosmos Submit Almighty Laws Of Nature Creation And Evolution

Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"”

Want Needs Littles Sometimes Today Grows Growth My Own Habit Comfort Creatures Strive Yesterday Get Better Each Day Zone Ritual Reach Out Comfort Zone Norm Creatures Of Habit

Author:LaToya Jackson

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear." "But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch. "Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.”

Men Needs Littles Eye Law Sides Break Cold Creatures Forests One Man Hunts Calves

Author:David Clement-Davies

“Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.”

Needs Feels Together Night Speak Quality Creatures Cricket Comforting Symphony Frogs

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.”

Ifs Needs Humans Language Animal Levels Brain Creatures Unique Communicate Brilliant Tiny Vulnerable Evolve Abstract High Level Rodents

Book:Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.”

Needs States Speak Duty Creatures Bounds Corporations

Book:Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

“None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.”

Ifs Way Needs Should Trying Kind Wisdom Prayer Acting Materials Pride Creatures Planes Dependent Subtle Our Prayers Material Things Petitions Acting As If

Author:Thomas Merton

“What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.”

Needs Wells Littles Has Beens Ends Hands Evil Hurt Chance Creatures Mercy Strikes Rings Pity Ownership Frodo Lord Of The Ring

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.”

People Knows Men Needs Two Young Three Courses Known Baby Creatures Capable Tests Intelligent Species Young Man Friendly Frightening Absurdity Manufacturing Tubes Rumours Highly Intelligent

Book:Soul Mountain

Source: Soul Mountain

“Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.”

World Want Needs Enough Order Simple Dog Creatures Eternal Highest Innocent Innocence Combination Bridges Thrive Companionship Transient Wants And Needs

Book:One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel

Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel

“Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.”

Needs Spirit Found Creatures Arches

Author:Frank Beddor

“Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.”

Needs Rooms Creatures Excuse Fickle

Book:My Fair Godmother

Source: My Fair Godmother

“To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.”

Needs Made Interest Pleasure Existence Divine Creatures Relation Creator Arise Sovereign Completeness Incompleteness Creator God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Shows Home Together Creatures Sacred Unison

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Knows Men Way Want Needs Years Mind Looks Heart Made Running Evil Causes Can Do Thousand Creatures Devil Machines Bounds Odds Thousand Years Elbows Meanness

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.”

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...”

People Way Needs Hard Helping Inspiring Animal Special Protect Creatures And Love Fellows

Author:Cesar Chavez