Divine Quotes - Page 18

• Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Offended You, Views

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• I‟m going to kill her,” Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present. “Who are you talking to?” Hyacinth demanded. “God,” Francesca said baldly. “And I do believe I have been given divine leave to murder you.” “Hmmph,” was Hyacinth‟s response. “If it was that easy, I‟d have asked permission to eliminate half the ton years ago.” Francesca decided just then that not all of Hyacinth‟s statements required a rejoinder. In fact, few of them did.

  Julia Quinn

  Believe, Talking, Years

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• Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Sound, Causes, Mystery

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• At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

  John Muir

  Religious, Blessed, Light

  John Muir (1969). “Two Essays on the Mountains & Meadows of the Sierra Nevada”

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• It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Organization, Government

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1302, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

  Alan Brennert

  Pain, Believe, Injustice

  Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.294, St. Martin's Press

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• What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Creativity, Reflection, Quality

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2016

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• Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hurt, Believe, Play

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi (2000). “The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce”, p.15, Ohio State University Press

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• I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Believe, Fate

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• Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.

  Holly Black

  Fall, Angel, Thinking

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• This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

  Julia Quinn

  Passion, Wicked

  Julia Quinn (2004). “When he was wicked”

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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 rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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• My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Ideas

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

  Rajneesh

  Holy, Respect Life

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• You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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• When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Unbroken, Divine Love

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.376, Random House

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• Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

  John Green

  Real, Made Up Stories, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

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• Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Ocean, Mean

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• To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Philosophy, Mean

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• the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Divine Nature, Wounds

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

  Susan Cain

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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