We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Nature is the art of God.
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
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