“The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.” MadeChristianSpiritualSufferingEvilNaturalLordTeachToo MuchProudComfortGloryWeaknessDevilConcernedStrongerFoundationPatientSakeSaintFleshEaseEnduranceOrthodoxOverwhelmingOrthodox ChristianSpiritual Power Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.” NaturalWealthInterestingVirtueSecurityCircumstancesWeaknessConcernedPropertyPossessionValuableOur FamilyDistinctionBelongingBenevolenceAvariceAncestryTransmissionHereditarySubservientPerpetuating Book:Reflections on the French Revolution Source: Reflections on the French Revolution
“As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.” MenWorldStatesProblemFightingCausesNaturalFeminismConcernedConstantDirtyGasSweatPerilBrutesWise WomenTamed Author:Rush Limbaugh
“No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.” RealStoriesLawOrderNaturalSpaceBehindsEmotionalConcernedCosmicViolationDefianceEvasionNatural Order Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937 Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937
“As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.” WellsNaturalOceanConcernedSurfer Author:Brandon Boyd
“As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.” IfsWorldWaySeemsNaturalExistenceEvolutionConcernedSupremeNatural WorldSupreme Being Author:David Attenborough
“It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.” MindHumansMayIdeasLawCertainNaturalTruth IsConcernedTendenciesReasoningReachingAgreementHuman MindHypothesisLaws Of Nature Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers