Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Divine

• I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

  

  George Benson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Friends
  • Divine
  • Creator

• 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.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Shadow
  • Shine
  • Divine

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • God
  • Art

• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Suffering
  • Idea
  • Divine

• Divine is the task to relieve pain.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Pain
  • Divine
  • Task

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Blessing

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Divine
  • Poets
  • Witty

• Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

  

  Plato
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Mysterious

• Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Divine
  • Dogmas
  • Concerning

• There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Morality
  • Divine
  • Human affair

• Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

  

  William Law
  • Light
  • Hell
  • Divine

• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Hell

• I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Reviews

• I sit next to Caleb, waiting and thinking about what life really is. About how it has its own will. How it shows you things that rip you open, tear your world apart. How it unfolds even when you think it can't. How it takes you places you never thought you'd be. Shows you things you never knew you wanted to see. Brings you pain - and joy.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Pain

• ... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Divine
  • Burning
  • Beens