Divine Quotes - Page 37

• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bible, Book, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirituality, Mystery, Godlike

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.214, CUP Archive

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• What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Spirituality, Incredulity

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• Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Art, Perfect

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• The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Vanity, Helping

  Jonathan Swift (1746). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.316

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• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Men, Talking

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• Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Religious, Compassion

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
  And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
  The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
  These orders upward all of them are gazing,
  And downward so prevail, that unto God
  They all attracted are and all attract.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sports, Angel, Order

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.410, Tyché

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• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

  John Calvin

  Angel, Exercise, Safety

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• And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Faith, Angel, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspiring, Angel, Animal

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Angel, Wings

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Christmas Box: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Jesus, Selfish, Sacrifice

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.573, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Divine Right, Grace, Way

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Divine Right, Way, Spirit

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.

  Louise Hay

  Divine Right, Perfect, Patterns

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• When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  Catherine Ponder

  Blessing, People, Soul

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• I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Faith, Divine Order, Ebb And Flow

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• I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Beach, Freedom, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 22, 2017

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• You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Goes On, Lasts, Spirituality

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• God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Identical, And Love

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• Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Book, Practice

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• The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Doe, Body, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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• First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Awakening, Firsts, Moments

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 02, 2017

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