Divine Quotes
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Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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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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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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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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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
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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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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
Thomas Aquinas
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
Said Nursi
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Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Hans Kung
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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My divine sign indicates the future to me.
Socrates
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Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.
Ian Buruma
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I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.
Corrie Ten Boom
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The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
Sandra Bullock
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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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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
William Law
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Plotinus
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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