As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
When you put a great big obstacle (your feeling of unworthiness), in front of a running stream, it's not like it's going… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither.… — J. I. Packer 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
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
The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and… — John Robinson Copy Share Image
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the divine spark. It crosses a lot of cultures and religions, the idea that you carry a… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
An individual should hold an awareness of God and His love all the time. He should not separate his consciousness from the… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to… — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
