A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you may feel very sad, because sadness also belongs to God. Sadness is also divine. There is no necessity to always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s… — paul hoffman Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements?… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Our race is the Master Race. we are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love? The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Of all the creations of the Almighty, there is none more beautiful, none more inspiring than a lovely daughter of God who… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“Divinity is the state of being connected with the source. It is the state when your heart is full with love, compassion,… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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