It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
God never gives dominion to any creature which has not received his image. His image is love. Other things belong to God;… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and… — Roger E. Olson 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close… — Tom Robbins 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
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
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
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
[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
One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Freedom of the Heart Imagination is beyond my comprehension, Such is the beauty of creation. With every soul in constant migration We… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions… — David Simon Copy Share Image
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
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