Divine Quotes - Page 14

• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  Harold MacMillan

  Kings, Fall, Divine Right

  1950 Speech, Strasbourg,16 Aug.

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

  Horace Mann

  Courage, Character, Thinking

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.199

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• Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Oneness, Guests

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Males, Ifs

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• And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

  Henry Miller

  Men, Literature, Human Potential

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.320, New Directions Publishing

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• It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Perfection, Enjoy, Know How

  "Complete Essays".

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• Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  Eugenio Montale

  Creative, Height, Comedy

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• In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Principles, Way, Documentaries

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• Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

  Max Muller

  Mother, Children, Father

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• 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?

  Max Muller

  Reflection, Reality, Fire

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• 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.

  Max Muller

  Home, Reality, Soul

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Caress the detail, the divine detail.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Religion, Details, Chaos

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• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

  Henri Nouwen

  War, Mean, Resistance

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola

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• The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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

  George Osborne

  Country, Divine Right, World

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Native American, Religion

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• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

  Pope John Paul II

  Anniversary, Loyalty, Honesty

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• 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.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Doubt

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Awakening, Divine Nature

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I believe in divine forces and energies.

  Richard Pryor

  Believe, Energy, Force

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