Divine Quotes

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

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.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'