Quotes About Divine

May our lives reflect God's love and light.

The next time that something seemingly bad happens to you, look for the divine in it. Look for the soul in the mundane, every day occurrences of your life. Look for the spark, look for the light.

God gives strength to the weak.God grace is the power for godly living.

Love melts. Love heals. Love unites. Love forgives. A Divine Union that goes beyond time and space, that's what I'm looking for—

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately connected with the discovery of the sacred.

The art of creating tools is essentially superhuman-either divine or demoniac (for the smith also forges murderous weapons).

From the point of view of the history of religions, the Incarnation represents the last and most perfect hierophany ... To accept the possibility of the Absolute becoming incarnate in a historical person ... is to recognize that the countless pre-Christian generations were not victims of an illusion when they proclaimed the presence of the sacred, i.e., of the divine, in the objects and rhythms of the cosmos.

Time turns into pleroma by the very fact of the incarnation of the divine Word: but this fact itself transfigures history.

Así como la -naturaleza- es el producto de una secularización progresiva del cosmos obra de Dios, el hombre profano es el resultado de una desacralización de la existencia humana.

Ancak simyac?lar çal???rlarken Tanr?'n?n yard?m?n? ald?klar?na inan?yorlard? ve bu yüzden onlara göre yapt?klar? iÅŸ Tanr?'n?n teÅŸvik ettiÄŸi deÄŸil ama izin verdiÄŸi bir doÄŸay? kusursuzlaÅŸt?rma etkinliÄŸiydi. Sy.187

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately linked with the discovery of the sacred.

Experience of the sacred is inherent in man's mode of being in the world.

It is probable that the Phoenician version of the myth of divine sovereignty derives from, or was strongly influenced by, the Hurrian myth. We may presume that Hesiod made use of the same tradition, known in Greece either through the Phoenicians or directly from the Hittites.

Dac? miracolul este ceva irecognoscibil, adic? un fapt dup? toate aparenÈ›ele ordinar – atunci toate faptele ordinare cap?t? o maxim? importan??, c?ci în oricare din ele poate fi o intervenÈ›ie iraÈ›ional?, divin?. Întâmplarea poate ajunge atunci c?l?uza existenÈ›ei noastre.

There are at least four Sumerian narratives that explain the origin of man. They are so different that we must assume a plurality of traditions. One myth relates that the first human beings sprouted from the ground like the plants. According to another version, man was fashioned from clay by certain divine artisans; then the goddess Nammu modeled a heart for him, and En-ki gave him life.

As we shall see later, according to certain traditions, metals are also supposed to have issued from the flesh or blood of some immolated primordial, semi-divine being.

The pharaoh is the incarnation of maat, a term translated by "truth" but whose general meaning is "good order" and hence "right," "justice.

El hombre de las sociedades arcaicas tiene tendencia a vivir lo más posible en lo sagrado o en la intimidad de los objetos consagrados.

Every eschatology returns to, continues and revalorizes the idea that the Creation, supremely the divine work, is alone capable of renewing and sanctifying human existence.

Sacredness is, above all, real.

God, who cares about the sparrows, orchestrates an opera every summer and gives the best arias to bugs.

Faith is an expression of the fact that we exist so that the infinite God can dwell in us and work through us for the well-being of the whole creation.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3–7).