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• Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Rights, Government, Political

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Words Of Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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• I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Mean, Challenges

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• I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

  Alice Walker

  Successful, Expression, Order

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• The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is -- unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

  Max Stirner

  Unique, Men, Etc

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.5, Rebel Press

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• Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.

  Og Mandino

  Love Is, Giving, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?”, p.232, Bantam

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• Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Self, Play

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.168, A&C Black

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiring, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Spiritual, Thinking

  JOHN BURROUGHS (1917). “STUDIES IN NATURE AND LITERATURE”

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• The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

  Roland Smith

  Lying, Views, Matter

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• The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Perfect, Should, Humans

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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• There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Self, Giving

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• Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

  Barry Lopez

  Eden, Patterns, Midst

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• Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book, Reflection

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• Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Silence

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• Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

  Matthew Scully

  Pride, Animal, Men

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• A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

  Jodi Picoult

  Men, Way, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Sight, Egypt

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Book

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• The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Divine Beauty, Wholeness, Universe

  Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press

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• Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Thinking, Looks

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• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

  Michio Kaku

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Feb 16, 2010

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