Divine Quotations | Page 4

It's a very risky business ascribing divine intent to natural disasters. Nobody but God really knows why these things occur.

It's our position that every financial transaction my client was involved in was legitimate. I don't know if we can divine what motivates the U.S. government.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years; the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath?

Nothing will convince me there wasn't a divine element here. People gave sacrificially. They gave more than they could afford. They just did it.

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.

Society is our primary concern. The Divine is manifest in society.

The merger of human love with Divine love brings about Cosmic Order .

The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

I personally feel like it was divine intervention, because I wanted to come back. God changed Matt's heart about the whole thing, and obviously I'm very happy about the way things turned out.

If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.

If you agree that perjury and obstruction of justice have been committed and yet you vote down the conviction ... you raise the most serious questions of whether the president is, in fact, subject to the law or whether we are beginning a restoration of the divine right of kings,

If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it -- You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.

In the forenoon, after seeing that every person was clean, divine service was performed according to my usual custom on this day.

In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.

Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm really supposed to do and doing it.

I reject the notion of talking about God as a person, but there's a difference between talking about God as a person and talking about God as personal. The term I use is pantheistic - everything is in God and God is in everything. That's pretty intimate, but it doesn't mean that we don't have to find our own way and do our own creating. I see the universe as a Divine womb and we're all swimming around in this soup.

If there was ever a time for intelligent design, it is now. Because we will need divine intervention to fix it (Harris Ranch) later if we do it wrong.

His artistry soars to heights of sublime silliness and divine absurdity.

But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye; therefore, I give you the divine eye to see My majestic power and glory.

But if destruction is far removed from God, because He is incorruptible and eternal, it follows that the divine power is incapable of division.

Hidden down in every person is the Divine -- Real faith, dreams and visions. Lift your thoughts above the commonplace and live in the Presence of the Best. Spiritual investments are repaid a thousand fold.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

By contemplating on Me with an unwavering mind, disciplined by the practice of meditation, one attains the Supreme divine spirit, O Arjuna.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

Divine is the task to relieve pain

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life,

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

Divine grace was never slow.

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

I can assure the Canadian public that the Conservative Party, having been out of office for most of the last 100 years, doesn't think it has a divine right to rule, and we're certainly going to listen to what other parties have to say.

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into being at this particular time by a mandate of God. I have a divine guiding light. Even though many people think I am just doing things my own way, there is no such thing as my own way.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

I believe in miracles, ... and I believe at that point I really did feel a change. Whether it's a more mental thing than it is divine intervention, I don't know, but I feel pretty good.

I believe that divine minds are all concious of a universal truth that begins and ends with geometry

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings...

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

No power can withstand divine Love.

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine

It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.