From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLEIt is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
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I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.
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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
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As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
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The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
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Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.
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In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
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