Divine Quotes - Page 16

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Emotion, One Word, Ideals

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.6, editionNEXT.com

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• In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Infinite, Christ

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.370, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

  Ellen G. White

  Father, Men, Race

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• The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Husband, Afterlife

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

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• If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Mean, Race, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Origin Of Life, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Crazy, Mean

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• Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Heaven, Body

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

  David A. Bednar

  Unique, Men, Perspective

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• Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Mean, Men

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• Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, People, Joy

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• The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Motivation, Doe, Sometimes

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• What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Men, Divinity, Able

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Self, Exorcism

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Expression, Glimpse, His Love

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• Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Angel, Character, Men

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.606, Library of America

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• In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Daughter, Dream, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

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• Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

  Brady Udall

  Hero, Believe, Angel

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• Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Roots, Evil

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• When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Desire, Example

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• I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Mean, Humility

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• Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

  Philip Sidney

  Strikers, Senses

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Dutton (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.128, Taylor & Francis

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