Divine Quotes - Page 16

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

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.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

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

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

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

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

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.

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

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.