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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may… — John Oates Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Mother Meera: It is not necessary to devote or believe in me. If you are sincere to your guru, master, God, Absolute… — Mother Meera Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose,… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
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