Divinity Quotes - Page 27

• The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Moving, Space

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• Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Agents, Kind

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• Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, World, Devotion

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• There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Devotion, Reason

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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• As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

  Octave Mirbeau

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Jesus, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

  Timothy Leary

  Names, Skins, Technique

  "Leary calls LSD 'sacrament'". The Tech, p. 6, November 08, 1966.

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• Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Hero, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  And Love, Needs, Argument

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 58, 1895.

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• True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unfolding, Miraculous, True Success

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.9, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Might

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

  Pythagoras

  Injustice, Dear, Hostile

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Essence, Lasts, Firsts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

  Robert Wright

  Moral Growth, Names, People

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Faith, Simple, Essentials

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• What is this eternity to me without you?
  What is the infinity of my domains?
  Empty ringing words,
  A spacious temple - without a divinity!

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Infinity, Temples, Empty

  "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

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• If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

  Julian Jaynes

  Powerful, Mind, Revolution

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Children, Ice Cream

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him

  William Burkitt

  Three, Redemption, Bears

  William Burkitt (1832). “Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament”, p.781

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• It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself, we really assert it to be God; and the sooner we arrive at that divinity, the better.

  David Hume

  Supposing That, Order, Principles

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.463

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• Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

  Walter Bagehot

  Wise, Lying, Philosophy

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1855). “The National Review”, p.46

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• As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

  Thomas Browne

  Brain, Atheism, Mystery

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

  Federico Fellini

  Religious, Real, Men

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