Quotes About Natural Revelation

#1. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ...

John Locke

#2. Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#3. If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

Dalai Lama

#4. No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.

John Herschel

#5. Love that cares, listens.

Paul Tillich

#6. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Lewis

#7. 28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#8. What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

G. Campbell Morgan

#9. THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes ... " Revelation 2:7 Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

Oswald Chambers

#10. We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.

Richard M. Eyre

#11. But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvellous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.

John Chrysostom

#12. Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Andre Gide

#13. To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#14. Your mind is your tram; it will take you any station you wish!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.

Lauren Groff

#16. Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember ... but I forgot!

Merrit Malloy

#17. I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

David Doubilet

#18. Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside
from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#20. Whether arrived at through reason or revelation ... natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

Ilana Mercer

#21. Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

#22. Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Julia Cameron

#23. The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.

William Lane Craig

#24. Natural theology, in other words, is in no way a step on the way toward the theology which takes God's self-revelation as its starting point. It is more likely, in fact, to lead in the opposite direction.

Lesslie Newbigin

#25. These divisions are illusory. What we call "nature" is merely one mode of the disclosure of the "supernatural," and natural reason merely one mode of revelation, and philosophy merely one (feeble) mode of reason's ascent into the light of God.

David Bentley Hart

#26. Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

John Locke

#27. I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based on nature rather than, or at least to supplement, ethics based on theological revelation.

Murray Rothbard

#28. It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare