Divine Quotes - Page 31

• The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.

  Gardiner Spring

  Christian, Hate, Lying

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.25

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• There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

  James Martineau

  Life, Poor, Possibility

  James Martineau (1880). “Hours of Thought on Sacred Things”

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• What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Spiritual, Love Is

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.431, Aum Publications

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• Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Expansion, Entering

  "The Wings of Joy". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1997.

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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• How can I tell the signals and the signs
  By which one heart another heart divines?
  How can I tell the many thousand ways
  By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Heart, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.242

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• Love's very pain is sweet,
  But its reward is in the world divine
  Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.285

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• Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
  Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
  Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Fate, Waiting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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• Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
  And can be bought with nothing but with self.

  Walter Raleigh

  Life, Self, Worldly

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.715

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• People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

  Sheryl Crow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Nature, Religion

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• Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, War, Men

  "Gaudium et Spes". § 78, December 7, 1965.

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• The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

  James A. Garfield

  Christian, Running, Song

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

  Joseph Heller

  Running, Evil, People

  Catch-22 ch. 18 (1961)

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• No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Warrants

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• But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Punishment

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• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

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• Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.

  Gerard Majella

  Sympathy, Divine Will, Bears

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• By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sympathy, Heart, Law

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.138, Aeterna Press

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• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Believe, Self

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

  William Cowper

  Anniversary, Wife, Friendship Love

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.162

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• My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Giving, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2017

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• I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Drama, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 4-6, 1922.

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• Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Strength, God, Education

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• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

  William Wilberforce

  Sunday, Blessing, Sea

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