Divine Quotes - Page 36

• I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Unique, Years

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Divine Wisdom

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• The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Men, Garden

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.15, Counterpoint Press

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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Character, Hypocrite

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers

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• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

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  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love You, Love Life, Generosity

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

  David B. Haight

  Love, Mean, Law

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• Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

  Samuel Henry Miller

  Self, People, Depth

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• Management has no divine rights.

  Walter Reuther

  Struggle, Divine Right, Rights

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

  Benjamin Rush

  Inspiration, Believe, Patriotic

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.

  Richard Crashaw

  Pain, Grieving, Shining

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72

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• A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Kindness, Worship, Primaries

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Environment, Harmony

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Climate

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

  Max Lerner

  Men, Ordinary, Way

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Safety

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Wildside Press LLC

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• The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Views, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Wildside Press LLC

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• Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Struggle, Rights

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• [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of government to foster, and encourage it among all the citizens and subjects. This is a point wholly distinct from that of the right of private judgment in matters of religion, and of the freedom of public worship according to the dictates of one's conscience.

  Joseph Story

  Religious, Believe, Government

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• The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mean, Perfection

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• Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here. Just as he prepared himself in the world of the matrix by acquiring forces necessary in this sphere of existence, so, likewise, the indispensable forces of the divine existence must be potentially attained in this world.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Needs, World

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• That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, And Love, Needs

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• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hatred, Selfishness, Radicalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.376, Library of America

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