Quotes · Skopia

9 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·God and nature✕clear

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

1951

★ 5.2

Treatise · Philosophical literature

God, or in other words, Nature.

Ethics · 1677

★ 3.8

Treatise · Scientific literature

Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

★ 3.7

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.6

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything.

The Quran, The Koran, 4:126 · 632

★ 2.1

Poem · Philosophical literature

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The last of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 2.0

Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded.

Increase Mather

1684

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term.

The Quran, The Koran, 31:13 · 632

★ 1.3