The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.
Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.
Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was. ' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is. '
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.
It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.
Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.
I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
In my breaking through. . . I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature. . . for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.