Quotes about Nature
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
— John Milton
Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.
— John Milton
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
— John Milton
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
— John Milton
Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.
— John Newton
The love of God is like himself — equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves — unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.
— John Owen
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
— John Piper
Apart from new birth, I am my problem. You are not my main problem. My parents were not my main problem. My enemies are not my main problem. I am my main problem. Not my deeds, and not my circumstances, and not the people in my life, but my nature is my deepest personal problem.
— John Piper
By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.
— John Piper
John 3:6, Jesus says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The flesh does have a kind of life. Every human being is living flesh. But not every human being is living spirit. To be a living spirit, or to have spiritual life, Jesus says, we must be "born of the Spirit.
— John Piper