Nature
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5.Nature versus grace and corrupted nature
5a.Nature and grace as contrary principles
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 296–297Nature looks on outward appearance and judges amiss, while grace looks to the heart.read · scan
- p. 323–324Contrasts Nature, deceitful and self-seeking, with Grace, simple and God-directed; they move in contrary, subtle ways.read · scan
- p. 324–325Continues the contrast of Nature, covetous, worldly and self-serving, with Grace, generous, simple and eternal-minded.read · scan
- p. 325–326Nature seeks self, curiosity and praise; Grace is humble and restrains the senses, seeking God's honour.read · scan
Martin Luther, Concerning Christian LibertyVol. 36
- p. 364Nature cannot expel or even recognize the false notion of works-righteousness by its own power.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 169–170Grace and nature will always both exist, hence Pelagians and Catholics forever in strife.read · scan
- p. 196–197True religion is contrary to nature, common sense and our pleasure.read · scan
5b.Nature as image of grace and its defects
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 72–73Unbelievers' unnatural sentiments show the corruption of nature.read · scan
- p. 137–138True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature.read · scan
- p. 148Nature testifies within and without to a lost God and corrupt nature.read · scan
- p. 190–191Nature shows perfections as image of God and defects showing she is only an image.read · scan
- p. 214–215Nature is an image of grace; God's bounties in nature foreshadow those of grace.read · scan
- p. 224Nature is an image of grace.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 364–365No religion is better than an unnatural one; grace perfects but never spoils nature.read · scan
5c.Disorder in nature following sin and crime
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 40Sins corrupt and pervert the nature God created; use against nature is a wrong against oneself, set against lawful use of things.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 53The dark, deformed, unfruitful wood contrasts with cultivated fields, a landscape reflecting the sin.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethVol. 46
- p. 344Disorder in nature, chimneys blown down and shaking earth, mirrors the unnatural murder.read · scan
- p. 347–348Darkness at noon, a falcon killed by an owl, and horses eating each other mirror the unnatural regicide.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 278Earth felt the wound and Nature sighed at the deed.read · scan
- p. 304The Fall brings storm winds, heat and cold, and discord among beasts, disorder in the natural order.read · scan
- p. 304Harsh seasons of rain, ice and wind now appear in the fallen world.read · scan
- p. 319Nature gives ominous signs: eagle chasing birds, lion pursuing hart and hind, darkened air.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Preface to Poems (1815)Vol. 39
- p. 307–309Milton's sympathizing Nature, sky and earth groaning at Adam's sin, is set against a merely witty conceit.read · scan
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