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[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
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"A Devil's Chaplain"

 

Richard Dawkins

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I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down
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Cruel to be kind means that I love you
Baby, you got to be cruel, you got to be cruel to be kind.

 

Nick Lowe

 

I saw that our nature is in God whole: in which He maketh diversities flowing out of Him to work His will: whom Nature keepeth, and Mercy and Grace restoreth and fulfilleth. And of these none shall perish: for our nature that is the higher part is knit to God, in the making; and God is knit to our nature that is the lower part, in our flesh-taking: and thus in Christ our two natures are oned.

 

Julian of Norwich

 

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

 

Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What kind of nature is that which is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature. 93

 

Blaise Pascal

 

Now behoveth to say a little more of this forthspreading, as I understand in the meaning of our Lord: how that we be brought again by the Motherhood of Mercy and Grace into our Nature’s place, where that we were made by the Motherhood of Nature-Love: which Kindly-love, it never leaveth us.
Our Kind Mother, our Gracious Mother, for that He would all wholly become our Mother in all things, He took the Ground of His Works full low and full mildly in the Maiden’s womb.

 

Julian of Norwich