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• Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Worship, Devotion

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• What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Essence

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

  Roseanne Barr

  Males, Female, Why Not

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Men, Ideas, Tree

  "Sources of World Civilization: Since 1500". Book by Oliver A. Johnson, 1993.

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• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

  Hosea Ballou

  Charity, Divine, Latter

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• As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Moving, Our Dreams

  Julia Cameron (2016). “It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond”, p.14, Penguin

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• The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Black, Movement

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• Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Mom, Angel, Motherhood

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• In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never promised any such thing. Indeed, following him would inevitably bring divine demotions in the eyes of the world. Rather, I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved his divinity by rising from the dead. That meant following him was the most rational and logical step I could possibly take.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Atheist, Jesus

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

  Justin Cronin

  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about.

  Luis Palau

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Light, Rose

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

  Cormac McCarthy

  Original Thought, Scent, Originals

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Horse, War, Butterfly

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• The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.

  Klaas Runia

  Christian, Jesus, Salvation

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• She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Romantic, Beautiful, Sweet

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• I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Love Life, Garden

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• The river Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rain, Cities, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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• This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

  John Calvin

  Free Will

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• I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Fashion, Yoga, Meditation

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