Mary Manley Quotes

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Nature does nothing in vain.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

There's nothing unnatural in creation.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.