Cecil Frances Alexander Quotes

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

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

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work.

It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. These are for you-gifts-these are for you-grace-these are for you-God, so count the ways He loves, a thousand, more, never stop, that when you wake in the morning you can't help turn humbly to the east, unfold your hand to the heavens, and though you tremble and though you wonder, though the world is ugly, it is beautiful, and you can slow and you can trust and you can receive each moment as grace.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.