All Quotes By Tag: Nature
“We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.”
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“What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? …of these things have I asked.”
“What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?”
“The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-”
“Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.”
“Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?”
“It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.”
“How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.”
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“The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.”
“Faith is a sacred fruit.”
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“Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.”
“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”
“O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?”
“As for you, you’re unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?”