An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of… — al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Oh! Dione of Opalescent Skin Ethereal. Your oospheric containment disperses argentous streams of velvety rays that cradle recesses of soul in gossamer… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
