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“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”

“Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.”

Ifs Knows Matter Whole Faces Turns Missing Ignorance Creatures Praise Dislike Creeds Confined Quran Whole Truth Omniscient

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”

Beautiful Turns Passion Struggle Divine Creatures Practicals Bread Earning Hearted Adoration Living Creatures Daily Bread Spinoza Baudelaire Sars

Author:Julien Benda

“When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether.”

People Ifs Men Turns Creatures Sitting Anger Angry Nervous Guts Internals Organs Inward Nervous System Metamorphosis Angry Man

Book:Anger, the misunderstood emotion

Source: Anger, the misunderstood emotion

“It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.”

World Mean Turns Bits Water Simple Creatures Miracle Everyday Appreciation Sugar Smallest Carbon Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Intestines

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”

Ifs Pain Moving Desire Turns Evil Causes Pleasure Results Existence Hell Saws Birth Creatures Individuality Deeds Karma Disgusting Thirst Crave Living Creatures Obnoxious

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.”

Hands Lying Time Turns Virtue Creatures Wretched Covetousness Uneasiness Prodigals

Author:Joseph Addison

“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Knows Want Should Stills Two Country Turns Wish Like You Creatures Unhappy Splits Should I Pathetic Here And There Not Happy Homesick Two Countries Beirut

Book:Beirut Blues

Source: Beirut Blues

“God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!”

Littles Eye Earth Turns Stars Walks Feet Creatures Pathetic

Author:Martha Ostenso

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.”

“Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.”

Want Humans Kind States Bigs Turns Rights Creatures Human Rights Careful Teeth Drunk Awful Department Sober American Politics Bucks Jimmy Redneck Carter Apparitions Landslides

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.”

People Way Humans Different Stories Use Turns Language Grows Human Beings Ability Growing Up Listening Creatures Complexes Being Different Eloquent

Author:Flemming Rose

“I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.”

“Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.”

Way Heart Done Turns Loss Forget Healing Mystery Creatures Solitary One Love Love And Loss

Book:My sad republic

Source: My sad republic

“Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.”

Men World Should Whole Turns Cases Wise Truth Is Pure Creatures Simplicity Whole World Spares Invincible Constancy Bending

Author:John Calvin

“In Christ, we become new creatures. His life becomes ours. Take that word 'life' and turn it over and over and press it and try to measure it, and see what it will yield. Eternal life is a magnificent idea which comprises everything the heart can yearn after. Do not your hearts yearn for this life, this blessed and eternal life, which the Son of God so freely offers?”

Trying Heart Ideas Life Is Turns Christ Son Offers Creatures Eternal Blessed Presses This Life Yield Magnificent Eternal Life

Author:Mary Slessor

“While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.”

Should Mind Running Turns Speak Justice Creatures Goodness Mirrors Riches Length Contemplating Immense Glances Fleeting Pondering

Author:Martin Luther

“To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.”

Humans Turns Human Beings Deals Creatures Artistry Canine

Author:David Hayter

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.”

Source: Joyful Christian

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”

World Mean Whole Moments Turns Imagination Pleasure Crime Objects Horror Creatures Whole World Delightful Delectable

Author:Marquis de Sade

“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.”

Ifs Men Enough Bigs Might Humanity Turns Mankind Creatures Pity Dragons Appreciated Prey Microbes

Book:The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King

Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King

“Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.”

Thinking Men Littles Long Soul Matter Running Christian Remember Turns Creatures Mark Heavenly Long Runs Twists

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?”

Earth Turns Water Sea Land Strange Creatures Green Gentle Analogies Docile Azure

Book:Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

Source: Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")”

Source: The Hidden Wound

“And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures.”

Said Remember Turns Mets Creatures Lovely Someday Unfair Handsome Frogs Poppies

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”

Ifs Want Turns Rocks Creatures Pale Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.”

Looks Matter Beautiful Turns Girl Happened Creatures Window No Matter What Bedroom Envied Caterpillars Fly Away Beautiful Creatures

Author:Patch Adams

“Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.”

May Long Two Action Turns Secret Praying Creatures Built Rounds Dragons Aggressive Unusual I Pray Mock Harness Orion Birthmarks

Author:Eoin Colfer

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

Knows Way Want Writing Ideas Running Night Turns Grows Sleep Bed Creatures Beast Fever Way To Live Can't Sleep Exhilaration

Book:The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury

“I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.”

Thinking Giving Heart May Said Turns Sound Poor Brain Strange My Heart Creatures Very Good Kingdoms Be You Remarks Outlines

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.”

Needs Mind Different Action Desire Turns Strong Wish Risk Magic Blood Creatures Crosses Hunger Deeds Manage Vampire Impulse Ritual Witch Spells Denied Qualified Witchcraft Matthew

Author:Deborah Harkness

“I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.”

Source: Eclipse

“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

Mind Different Real Self Past Spiritual Certain Turns Choices Future Creatures Lifetime Messiah Changing Your Mind Real Self Spiritual Beings Illusions Of Life

Author:Richard Bach

“She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.”

Littles Sometimes Artist Turns Girl Three Sweet Creatures Draws Glasses Dinner Rough Cigarette Strokes Silhouettes Brandy Really Pretty Sweet Girl

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.”

Littles Reason Values Turns Figures Creatures Treasure God Love Dolls Calculations Priceless Rags Ragged

Author:John Ortberg

“I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.”

People Eye Turns Found Animal Creatures Fats Curious Cooks Kitchen Pet Her Eyes Companionship Mama Oaks Baskets Stew

Author:Ann Aguirre

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