Divine Quotations | Page 2

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.

Until our mission with the Christian Church is over, we must quote the Bible and use it to explain the Divine Principle. After we receive the inheritance of the Christian Church, we will be free to teach without the Bible. Now, however, our primary mission is to witness to the Christian Church.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.

Through me the way into the suffering city,Through me the way to the eternal pain,Through me the way that runs among the lost.Justice urged on my high artificer;My maker was divine authority,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me nothing but eternal things were made,And I endure eternally.Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Inside each person is a divine being that yearns to come into full expression

Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

The outer level is symbolic and represents the world in its divine form and the inner level represents a map where the mind is transformed into an enlightened mind. The secret level represents the balance of mind and body and the energies surrounding them.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

We're looking forward to it. Dearborn and Divine Child are always a good test and we have to get by Annapolis and Edsel Ford in our league, so it's good to be able to put your kids up against that kind of competition early in the season.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

Let me tell you this; mine is no mesmerism, miracle or magic. Mine is genuine DIVINE POWER.

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

O my mind, serve Him; He is the Primal Being, the Infinite Divine Lord.

O Men! Look at the divine deeds of Vishnu; contemplate and then follow them.

O Lord, You are as You have said, yet I wish to see Your divine cosmic form, O Supreme Being.

May we be blessed with the wealth of maximum capabilities. May we be blessed by the sermon of divine knowledge leading to our progress.

Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Divine Guru, one's fears are erased and dispelled.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile!

Plotinus was a first rate synthetic philosopher that combined and illustrated the best aspects of prior philosophers and added his own mystic insights. His concepts are consonant with about 70% of Christian divine mechanics interestingly. The idea He had about a river of creation flowing eternally from 'The One' that is 'translated from a realm of forms or intellect into material composition reminds me quite a lot of Jesus' discussion about 'the water of life' from which she would never thirst, as Jesus was God for-himself. It is disappointing that so many have simply been formed within a non-philosophical, purely materialist intellectual criterion that is implicitly biased.

I wash Your Feet, and constantly serve You. O Divine Lord, I worship and adore You; I bow down before You. I am the slave of Your slaves; I chant Your Name. I offer this prayer to my Lord and Master.

But great souls, who possess divine qualities know Me as the cause of creation and imperishable, and worship Me single-mindedly.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

God have mercy upon those? who do not know the divine truth within themselves.

I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.

There is no end of My divine manifestations, O Arjuna. This is only a brief description by Me of the extent of My divine manifestations.

Within the home of his heart, he finds the Divine Self, and his light blends with the Light. The Messenger of Death does not leave the hypocrite, he is led away in dishonor.

We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift.

To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice.

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you.

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.

He is the blessed seed of the Messiah. He wouldn't be seen as divine as Haile Selassie, but as being of his family tree. The royal family is held in high esteem.

It is a damned country, banished from divine mercy and deserving only of being cursed.

I thank Divine Providence for the breath of a new spirit that this movement brought to the events of contemporary Europe. May God bless all those who are committed to promoting social justice and the good of workers.

It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

I say it was half divine intervention and half medicine. That way I'm not pissing anybody off.

Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.