Divine Quotes - page 2

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. (Willa Cather)
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. View quote
George Washington
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! View quote
Francis de Sales
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. View quote
Dion Fortune
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. View quote
Michael Jackson
I believe in divine forces and energies. View quote
Richard Pryor
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. View quote
Walter Lippmann
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. View quote
George Herbert
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. View quote
Charles Kingsley
For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. (William Blake)
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. View quote
Joseph Smith
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. View quote
Morris West
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! View quote
Eckhart Tolle
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. View quote
Leopold von Ranke
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne But tell me, nymphs what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. View quote
Nikola Tesla
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. View quote
Socrates
Too fair to worship, too divine to love. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant