Thomas Browne Quotes

Nature is the art of God.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

But only God can make a tree.

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

God made the country, and man made the town.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

God is the perfect poet.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.