Divine Quotes

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Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace. — Benedict of Nursia
As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to… — Peter Julian Eymard
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When… — Sri Chinmoy
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a… — Fulton J. Sheen
I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say… — Adolf Hitler
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be… — Francis of Assisi
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives.… — David B. Haight
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to… — Unknown Author
Management has no divine rights. — Walter Reuther
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of… — Benjamin Rush
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long… — Fulton J. Sheen
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings… — Richard Crashaw
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… — George Santayana
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… — Baruch Spinoza
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few… — Henry Ward Beecher
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and… — Max Lerner
Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to… — Abraham Lincoln
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might… — Abraham Lincoln
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of… — Joseph Story

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