[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice,… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act.… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist,… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
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