Divine Quotes
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A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor.
Charles Henry Mackintosh -
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
Mother Teresa
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer -
“For 'the human' is a medium of possible divine revelation.”
Edward Schillebeeckx -
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.
Carlos Bulosan -
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal -
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music or visual art, some event or experience decisively influencing their life, looking through a microscope or telescope, or just by looking at the miraculous manifestations or purposefulness of Nature.
Ernst Boris Chain -
Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.
Rene Descartes
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Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet -
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.
Northrop Frye -
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John Ruskin -
I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
Charles A. Dana -
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
Robert Wilson Lynd -
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
William Cowper
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Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.
David Brewster -
Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.
Chico Xavier -
Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God
Bonaventure -
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
William Wordsworth -
I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
Neil Abramson -
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
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is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists.
Thomas Keating -
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
George Bernard Shaw -
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
John Lennon The Beatles -
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
Albert Camus