Divine Quotes - Page 13

• Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Moving, Dark

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.1

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• There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Way, Scientist

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• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, People

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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

  Victor Hugo

  Smile, Jesus, Civilization

  "Centenaire de Voltaire" (1878)

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

  Basil Hume

  Divine Order, Choices, Decision

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• Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Faithful, Literature

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Soul, Analogies, Body

  Jamila Khatoon, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1963). “The place of God, man, and universe in the philosophic system of Iqbal”

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• Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Divine Order, Faithful, Literature

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• Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Space, Infinity, Dimensions

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1979). “Discourses of Iqbal”

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• Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Heart, Simple

  "The 10 most intriguing people of 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. 2009.

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• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Reason

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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  Immanuel Kant

  Religious, Philosophical, Recognition

  Immanuel Kant, Allen Wood, George Di Giovanni (1998). “Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Lesson, Men, Numbers

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• I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Cute, Running, Writing

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• 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.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Strong

  William Law, George Blacker Morgan (1974). “William Law: The Works”

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• Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Light

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7”, p.62, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love, Loving Life, Relief

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Pride, Temptation, Arguing

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Recognition

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• Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Light, Serenity

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

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Moving, Pigs

  Max Lucado (2012). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.10, Harper Collins

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