Divine Quotes - Page 9

• The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Destiny, Parent

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Focus, Greek, Strive

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Epic

  Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

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• For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

  Plato

  Art, Holy Prophet, Order

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• From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Wine, Order

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I guess I tend to see divine appointments everywhere. I am always on the alert for opportunities. So I prefer to err on the side of witnessing too often than not enough.

  Mark Dever

  Opportunity, Sides, Enough

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor's a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it's a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Kings, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and think our spirit is a spark of the divine, "the God within everyone." That's not how the biblical writers thought about our spirits or souls.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Philosophy, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

  W. Clement Stone

  Book, Divine Guidance, Light

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

  Laura Marling

  Divine Feminine, Humanity, Perception

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.

  Bette Midler

  Mad

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• We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

  Bette Midler

  Nerves

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• If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.

  Bette Midler

  Air, People, Giving

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• If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then his reanimation of the papacy will advance the "Church in permanent mission" for which he called in Evangelii Gaudium, which is the grand strategy document of his pontificate.

  George Weigel

  Media, Catholic, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

  George Weigel

  Medicine, Soul, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• 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.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Church, Sin

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• If I had used the term "guardian angels" or spoke of our "guides," a lot fewer eyebrows would raise. So it's just a matter of terminology here. The main idea is that we are always recipients of God's help, whether it is through other of God's beloved creatures, or directly from the Divine Itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Angel, Eyebrows, Ideas

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed down every morning to the golden calf of the New York Times, Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt. I tried to get my parents to respect and nourish me, let alone delight in me, so even though I secretly loved and believed in the Divine Something - Goodness, Good Orderly Direction, Gift of Desperation, the Cosmic Muffin - I wasn't ready yet to commit myself to the study of a higher power.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Morning, Atheist

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

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• If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Teaching, Catholic, Seven

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Spiritual, People, Black

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Real, Blessed, People

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, School, Mean

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Beautiful, Atheist, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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