Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.
The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one's beauty.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hindui...
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? A...
Father, within Thy House today We wait Thy kindly love to see; Since thou hast said in truth that they Who dwell in love are one with Thee, Bless those who for Thy blessing wait, Their love accept and consecrate. Dear Lord of love, whose Heart of Fir...
Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them. The Sufis of all ages have been known for their beautiful personality. It does not mean that among them there have not been people with great powers, wonderful ...
The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the ...
