Divine Quotations | Page 6

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

To teach is great, but to inspire is divine.

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Two human loves make one divine.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Genius, when young, is divine.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

Thus supported by a firm trust in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the collected wisdom of the Union, and imploring the divine benediction on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily engage with you in the arduous but p

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

What is the Divine Spirit? Is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual fountain?

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

No more was seen the human form divine.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.

PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care of it ? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love?

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man

The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

And so the grandeur of the Forest-treeComes not by casting in a formal mould,But from its own divine vitality.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

It is within you that the divine lives.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.