Quotes About Divine

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

The gods play games with men as balls.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Bless you, daugher of man.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

All men have need of the gods.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.