Divine Quotes - Page 12

• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

  Martin Buber

  Individual, Reaching, Approach

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• The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

  Sandra Bullock

  Acting, Pieces, Tiny

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Pearls, Rich

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

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• 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.

  John Calvin

  Trust, Christian, Prayer

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Silence, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

  Chanakya

  Education, Wisdom, Heart

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Soul, Endurance

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• Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Animal, Men

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• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Peace, Lying

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• If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Art, Sri Lanka, Meditation

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.234, Aum Publications

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• My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

  Margaret Cho

  Revenge, Children, Bully

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Divine Inspiration, Portions

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Soul, Literature, Forget

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.18, e-artnow

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• Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Moderation, Humans

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• Genius, when young, is divine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Genius, Young

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.110, London : H. Colburn

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• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  Lana Del Rey

  Mistake, Believe, Sound

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  George Eliot

  God, Memories, Son

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Views, Darkness

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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Men, Essence

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• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Creativity, Rome

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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