A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room…

You can't practice stand-up alone in your room. You can't find out if a joke works by asking two of your friends.

— Taylor Tomlinson

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections.…

— Sri Chinmoy

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

— James A. Garfield

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

— R. C. Sproul

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

“Monsters are divine portents.”

— Andrew Davidson

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine…

— Joseph Murphy

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet…

— Kenneth R. Miller

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

— Swami Vivekananda