Divine Quotes - Page 7

• I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message.

  Alexander Chee

  Real, Feelings, Risk

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are some elements in his philosophy that seem to make contingency impossible.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Philosophy, Elements, Agents

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.

  John Britt Daniel

  Band, Kind, Fit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Having the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me.

  John Assaraf

  Spiritual, Connections, Creator

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Mind, Body

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.

  MC Yogi

  Gratitude, Moving, Mind

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

  Marianne Williamson

  Baby, Moving, Reality

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.

  Keith Carradine

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regarding their religious views was, "They will answer to God, at their own peril, in the great day approaching [that is, the day of divine judgment]."

  Roger Williams

  Religious, Views, Great Day

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

  Frank Baron

  Moving, Silence, Want

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• The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Greatness, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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• It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.

  John Remsburg

  Jesus, Atheism, Purpose

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• The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

  Lord Acton

  Perfection, World, Improvement

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• Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

  Gordon Fee

  Religious, Communication, Teaching

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• Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Divine Right, Parent, Bears

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• The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Hands, Secret, Trying

  R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.

  Elliott Sober

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Punishment, Population

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Faces, Spirit

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• You take my imperfections and you love them divine.

  Ellis

  Imperfection

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• If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.

  Chico Xavier

  Kindness, Past, Opportunity

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• It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Rights, Justice, Selfishness

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• The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Father, Real

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• Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Heart, Self

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