Quotes About Divine

Homer then has the bard—a blind man whose name is Demodocus, which means "popular with the people"—say something that drives far into the center of what Homer means and why Homer matters: "The gods did this and spun the destruction of people / For the sake of the singing of men hereafter." The song, this poem, this story, is the divine purpose of the war. The war happened so that the poem could happen.

This is a strange conundrum that betrays our difficulties with classifying life, and our adherence to a system that was designed to show the perfection of divine creation, organisms static in time and set in stone as they stand before us. Darwin's great idea ruined that ideal, because he recognized that life passes through time, and changes continually. The only life forms that don't change are dead ones.

But I struck one chord of musicLike the sound of a great Amen.

We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Gilgal is connected to the verb "roll" ("g-l-l"), perhaps to undermine the original connotation of a circle of standing stones, seen as forbidden divine images

The Protestant view is problematic because it ignores the fact that certain prophetic oracles are very interested in punctilious performance of particular ritual laws (see esp. Jer 17.19–27). Furthermore, a close reading of prophets such as Isaiah or Amos suggests that they are not anti-law or anti-Temple, but are rhetorically emphasizing that ritual behavior alone, without proper moral behavior, is insufficient to assure divine blessing.

12On that occasion, when the Lord routed the Amorites before the Israelites, Joshua addressed the Lord; he said in the presence of the Israelites: "Stand still, O sun, at Gibeon, O moon, in the Valley of Aijalon!" 13 And the sun stood still And the moon halted, While a nation wreaked judgment on its foes

was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth—when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.

Torah and the world is thus the relation between idea and actualization, between vision and fulfillment. So that the intellectual study of Torah and the emotional involvement in its contents are a form of identification with the divine will, with what may be called God's dream of the existence of the world and the existence of man.

Thus, it is the task of man to redeem these shattered fragments, or sparks, to find in them their higher significance, and to restore them to their divine origin.

Torah is an essence unto itself and everything in it is independent of the world.

Prophecy is an abundance that comes to man from without, from a higher source.

The controversy lay in determining the degree of freedom allowed. In contradistinction to this view, Maimonides held that divine providence was reserved only for certain exceptional individuals.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.

God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Kendi emirlerine ayk?r? hareket edilirse, tabiat?n intikam? korkunç olur. Bunun için ben Tanr?'n?n isteÄŸine uygun hareket ettiÄŸime inan?yorum. Çünkü milletimi Yahudi'ye kar?? müdafaa etmekle Allah'?n eserini müdafaa etmiÅŸ oluyorum.

The old beliefs will be brought back to honor again.... The whole secret knowledge of nature, of the divine, the demonic.... We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race.

Fun has a sacred dimension.

Good Lord, you would lead angels down a sinful path and they would follow joyously.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.