Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
God lives in cozy homes. Happiness, which a cozy home can give you, is so divine on this Earth, you don't need… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey.… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image