Divine Quotes

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.