Divine Quotes
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Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.
Etienne Gilson
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From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
Freya Stark
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Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste
His works. Admitted once to his embrace,
Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:
Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart
Made pure shall relish with divine delight
Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
William Cowper
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Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
Edward Caswall
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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
Thomas Aquinas
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
R. C. Sproul
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
Said Nursi
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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.
Aristotle
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The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
Lorenzo Snow
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
Pythagoras
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O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
William Shakespeare
