Basilea Schlink Quotes
Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretaste of this divine life here and now.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
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I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
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Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
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My body is a whisper where hers is a shout.
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Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?
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Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretaste of this divine life here and now.
