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• It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Simple, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Dream, Knowledge

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• The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doctors, Atheism, Devil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1078, Library of Alexandria

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• One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Humanity, Church

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• Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

  Frances Osborne

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Omnipotence, Circles

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• This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Perfection, Way, Accepting

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.45, SUNY Press

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• That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  War, Men, Volunteer

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• Nature is the mirror of divinity.

  Ellen G. White

  Nature, Mirrors

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Divine, Epithet, Foul

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) act 5, sc. 5

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• Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Honor, Eat Love Pray, Eat Pray And Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.26, A&C Black

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• If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

  Alberto Manguel

  Justice, May, Faces

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.228, Vintage Canada

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• Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, Understanding, Demon

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• It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

  James E. Faust

  Doubt, Denial, Possibility

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• According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Suffering, Purpose

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.188, A&C Black

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• The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Yoga, Humanity, Awakening

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• For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

  Alyssa Milano

  Hope, Good Faith, Higher

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• I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

  Henri Barbusse

  Believe, Solitude, Doe

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• If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

  David Hume

  School, Math, Numbers

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding sec. 12, pt. 3 (1748)

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• No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Spiritual, Humanity, Gains

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• Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Light, Meditation

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• The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religion, Atheism, Impossible

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• Mystery is the essence of divinity

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Essence, Mystery

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.47, Feminist Press at CUNY

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