Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn. . . you can learn, um, a lot of things. . . a lot of things from the experience. . . you can learn from a lot of things being smart.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.
. . . liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.
Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.
We live in a time when people are increasingly skittish about evangelism - Christians and non-Christians alike. People are suspicious of evangelism, and misunderstand it, which contributes to our reluctance to share the gospel. When you add our fear of others' reactions as well as our natural laziness to the equation, it's not hard to see why we make such little progress in sharing our faith.
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.