Divinity Quotes - Page 7

• The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Secret, Vision, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  William Herschel

  Gratitude, Stars, Hero

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• SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Character, Cat

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

  Meister Eckhart

  Work, Sleep, Doe

  "Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart".

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• Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Eye, Interaction With Others

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• The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

  Joseph Addison

  Secret, Causes, Steps

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.

  Takuan Soho

  Mean, Trying, Doe

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Children

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• If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Heart

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• To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

  John Smith

  Spiritual, Book, Soul

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• Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  God, Order, Miracle

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.32, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leader, Worship, States

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving, Erotic, Special

  Jim Morrison (1970). “The lords, and The new creatures: poems”

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• There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

  Carlos Santana

  Light, Dna

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• Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!

  Jim Morrison

  Firsts

  Song: The Ghost Song

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• As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.

  William Law

  Life, Christian, Business

  William Law (1816). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author”, p.39

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• Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Jesus, Faith Religion

  Diary of John Adams, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 1756.

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• Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

  Francis Bacon

  Humanity, Poor, Humans

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• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  William James

  Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

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• If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Respect, Doubt

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Assuming, Ends, States

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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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• 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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