Divine Quotes
2822 quotes by 1361 authors
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a…
— Aeschylus
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in…
— David Brainerd
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,…
— David Brainerd
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A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
— Martin Buber
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The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and…
— Sandra Bullock
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
— Samuel Butler
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our…
— John Calvin
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
— Pablo Casals
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine…
— Chanakya
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It…
— Lydia M. Child
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily…
— Sri Chinmoy
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My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends.…
— Margaret Cho
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
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