Divinity Quotes - Page 15

• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Divine, Chaucer, Familiar

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.145, Broadview Press

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• Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Compassion, Flavor, Emotion

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.28, Open Road Media

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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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• Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

  Catherine Ponder

  Men, Heritage, Want

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• IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiration, Fire, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press

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• The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Angel, Fate, Cutting

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Real, Joy

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Creatures

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• I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Attention

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2149, Manonmani Publishers

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• All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pearls, Golden, Thread

  "The Divine Science: Eternal Techniques of Authentic Mysticism".

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• At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

  Stephen Prothero

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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• If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Money, Dollars, Worship

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sacrifice, East, Looks

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book IV, Chapter IX, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, Fiction, Radio

  "In Memory of Radio" l. 1 (1961)

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• Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Mean, Selfishness, And Love

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Nature, Sides

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• The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Genius, Sparks, Conscious

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.336

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• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Tablets, Purpose

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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• Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spring, Spirit, Life Is

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• ... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

  Freya Stark

  Sex, Love Is, Roots

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Fate, Soul, Rays

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.186

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• I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Heaven, Judgement

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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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