Divine Quotes - Page 24

• Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dark, Reflection, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

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• What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

  Galileo Galilei

  Gratitude, Mean, Hands

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• If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

  Wendell Berry

  Fate, Love Is, Men

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• Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

  Surya Das

  Ignorance, Enlightenment, Becoming

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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• [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mindfulness, Sentimental, Belief

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Agony, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• To write is human, to edit is divine.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Humans, Edits

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Law, Skills

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.126, Xist Publishing

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• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

  Theodore Parker

  Atheist, Eye, Curves

  Theodore Parker (1908). “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nymphs, People, Enemy

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• I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Brother, Fall, Men

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• The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

  Emily Bronte

  Horse, Ejaculation, Needs

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.370, Penguin

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Men, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn’t expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Strong, Inspiration

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• Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

  Victor Hugo

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, World, God Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.77, The Golden Sufi Center

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• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Principles, Links, Dissent

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• Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

  Tom Wolfe

  World, Mass, Divided

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

  George Sand

  Passion, Capacity

  "The Intimate Journal of George Sand".

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• The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Men, Light, Comprehension

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

  Sebastian Barry

  Faithfulness, Humans

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.

  Karen Chance

  Prevarication, Sinner

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.652, Penguin

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• The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

  Justina Chen

  Sunset, Talking, Ideas

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