Quotes about Design

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

Luck is the residue of design.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, So as not either to provoke, or dread New war provoked. Our better part remains To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not; that He no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

That God hath no design for his own glory in us or by us, in this world or unto eternity,—that there is no especial communion that we can have with him by Jesus Christ, nor any capacity for us to enjoy him,—but holiness is necessary unto it, as a means unto its end.

God is the designer of the family.

All the beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the master creator.

You are very precious, each of you, regardless of your circumstances. You occupy a high and sacred place in the eternal plan of God, our Father in Heaven. You are His daughters, precious to Him, loved by Him, and very important to Him. His grand design cannot succeed without you.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell explores his solitary flight.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.