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Quotes About Divine

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
~ John Polkinghorne
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
~ Alice Walker
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
~ William Ames
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful
~ Plato
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
~ William Law
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
~ Stephen Spender
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
~ Adam Clarke
Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me
~ Confucius
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
~ Paul Carus
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
~ Peter Kreeft
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
~ Angelus Silesius
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
~ Charles Lindbergh
Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
~ Martin Luther
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
All of nature is God's art.
~ Dante Alighieri
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
~ William Wordsworth