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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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• Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Knowledge, Mean, School

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• Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

  James Allen

  Spiritual, Pain, Errors

  James Allen (2015). “The Way to Peace”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Believe, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1195, Manonmani Publishers

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• We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Lying, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3605, Manonmani Publishers

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• What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Believe, People, Pieces

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Strong, Fall

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Religious, Book, Teaching

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• My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

  Martin Luther

  Temptation, Masters, Has Beens

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Intelligent, Looks

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• The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fire, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

  Martin Luther

  Practice, Use, Speculation

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.179

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• Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.

  Phyllis Curott

  Magic, World, Divine

  Phyllis Curott (2001). “Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic”, p.26, Harmony

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• Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Hands, Forever

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• The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

  David Hume

  Acceptance, Men, Yield

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.73, Stanford University Press

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• Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity

  Scott Cairns

  Humanity, Christ, Occasions

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• As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.

  Jennifer Skiff

  Dog, Stars, Heart

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• I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

  Moby

  Feelings, Enough, New Testament

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• Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

  John Locke

  Portraiture, Patterns, Neighbour

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.134

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

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• If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Harbors, Grandeur, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Suicide, World, Command

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

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