Divine Things Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we…
— Alan Moore
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves…
— Emile Durkheim
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you…
— Walt Whitman
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart…
— John Bunyan
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The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary…
— Pablo Casals
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
— Seneca the Younger
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I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a…
— Amanda McBroom
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No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in…
— William Ralph Inge
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Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell
— Walt Whitman
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The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the…
— Gardiner Spring
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
— Origen
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
— Lactantius
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To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that…
— Pablo Casals
Who Wrote These Divine Things Quotes
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