Divine Quotes
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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 -
The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
Said Nursi
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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 -
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Seneca the Younger -
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
But one thing they all (i.e., E. P. Sanders, Geza Vermes, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, and many others) agree on: Jesus did not spend his ministry declaring himself to be divine.
Bart Ehrman -
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
Pythagoras -
The divine is in all things.
Oprah Winfrey
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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 -
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
Pythagoras -
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 -
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer -
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Plotinus -
How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith. Strength comes when you remember that you have a divine nature, an inheritance of infinite worth.
Russell M. Nelson
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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 -
Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.
Abraham Lincoln -
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
Rumi -
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 -
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Hans Kung -
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Vladimir Nabokov -
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
William Lloyd Garrison -
We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
Bette Midler -
Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for “pie in the sky.
James Hal Cone