Divine
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
Author: Viktor E. FranklTopics: Divine, Life, Unique
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Wind
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Guilty, Life, Meaningful, Rich, Satisfy, Undone
If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections – if he has any – against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Divine, Faith, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Revelation, Truth
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Creatures, Divine, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Perfection
Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, God, Grace, Meaningful
We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Meaningful, Open
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Grace, Inspirational, Intellect, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Isn’t it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Human, Life, Meaningful, Referring, Strange
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, God, Heart, Pure
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, God, Love, Meaningful, Soul, Suffering
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Idea, Majority, Meaningful, Measuring
You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Little, Meaningful, Strengthen
He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Life, Magnificent, Meaningful, Preparing, Suffering
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Heaven, Hidden, Jesus, Night, Spouse, Sweet
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Divine, Famous, Flowers, Illuminated, Life, Meaningful, Shine, Soul
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Child, Divine, Famous, Human Right, Inevitable, Peace
To dance is human, to polka is divine.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Dance, Divine, Famous, Human, Polka
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Divine, Famous, Idea, Justice, Meaningful, Purity, Vulgar
While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Divine, Famous, Feelings, Guidance, Happenings, Life, Light, Meaningful, Ordinary, Positive
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Devotion, Divine, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Praise, Things
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Confidence, Divine, Faith, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Little, Meaningful, Moment, Planning, Positive, Prayer, Praying, Trust
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Divine, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Living, Meaningful, Nice, Simple, Story, Throughly, True, World
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Devotion, Divine, Everything, Faith, Famous, Feelings, God, Grace, Grateful, Harmony, Life, Love, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Recognize
What was God doing before the divine creation?
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Divine, Famous, Meaningful
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.
Author: George HerbertTopics: Divine, Famous, Feel, God, Inspirational, Liquor, Love, Meaningful, Positive, Sweet, Wine
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Desires, Divine, Evil, Famous, Greatest, Habits, Nature, Strong, Thoughts, Weak
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Divine, Famous, Happen, Happens, Remain, Scheme, Strange, Witness
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Certain, Divine, Divine guidance, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Sense of belonging, Sense of comfort
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Divine, Divine Imagery, Famous, Feeling Stuck, Feeling uncertain, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Divine, Earth, Feel, Hand, Join, Self-Fulfilling, Self-Invention, Self-Satisfaction
That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Divine, Famous, Love, Meaningful
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Divine, Famous, Hope, Justice, Meaningful
Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christ, Christian, Divine, Fruitful, God, God willing, Healthy, Hear, Jesus Christ, Love interest, Loved, Lovemaking, Loving Strongly
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Acceptable, Contribute, Control, Divine, Hard, Hope, Relief, Religion, Religious Differences, Sense, Sense of belonging, Times, Times of difficulty
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Author: Muhammad IqbalTopics: Divine, Faithful, Famous, Meaningful, Muslim, Predestination
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Divine, Famous, Love, Philosophical
Topics: Divine, Faithful, Famous, Minerals, Predestination
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Author: Michael JacksonTopics: Children, Divine, Famous, Meaningful
Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not deny the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Building, Built, Democracy, Divine, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Male friends, Meaningful, Tearing, Technique, Workings
Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Charity, Divine, Grace, Humanity, Justice, Peace
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Author: MichelangeloTopics: Divine, Famous, Meaningful, Perfection, Work
Angels are thoughts of God–to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
Author: Marianne WilliamsonTopics: Divine, Famous, God, Inspirational, Meaningful
We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.
Author: Marcel ProustTopics: Company, Death, Divine, Famous, Fate, Follow, Hostages, Less Bitter, Less Inglorious, Less Probable, Meaningful, Perish, Share
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Divine, Quality, Sense
I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life’s bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Control, Divine, Life, Trust, Trusted
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Divine, Earth, Yourself
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
Author: Blaise PascalTopics: Christ, Divine, God, Peace, Peaceful, Redeem
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Divine, Famous, Gift, Knowledge, Meaningful, Natural World, Nature, Rare, Rarely
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Divine, Famous, Meaningful, Nature, Operate, Universe
You’re divine. Didn’t anyone ever tell you It’s OK to shine?
Author: Lana Del ReyTopics: Ability, Divine, Famous, Shine