Divinity Quotes - Page 23

• Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Men, Appetite

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.147, Vintage

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• What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Believe, People, Pieces

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Believe, Adventure, Hazards

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Large Edition”, p.480, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Lying, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3605, Manonmani Publishers

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• All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Believe, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1195, Manonmani Publishers

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• When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

  James Allen

  Spiritual, Pain, Errors

  James Allen (2015). “The Way to Peace”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Knowledge, Mean, School

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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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• The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

  David Hume

  Acceptance, Men, Yield

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.73, Stanford University Press

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• How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Art, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

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• In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Facts, Hebrew, Speculation

  Donald Michael Kraig (2010). “Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”, p.74, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

  Thomas Browne

  Pride, Gout, Stones

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.141

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• Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Life Is, Transcendental

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• [E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Reflection, Men, Mars

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• People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

  George William Russell

  Country, Stupid, Men

  George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”

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• Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Issues, Religion

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

  Denis Diderot

  Wall, Views, Religion

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• Man is God by his faculty for thought.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Faculty

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• There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, World, Revelations

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Nathan Haskell Dole (1899). “The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.

  Gloria Gaither

  Religious, Prayer, Struggle

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• It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Shapes

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• While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

  N. T. Wright

  Dog, Jesus, Children

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