Quotes About Divine

As for coincidences—I like that old saying about them being small miracles in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.

I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds—because all things are possible with God.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

I see him as a god from elsewhere who has lost his way . . .

Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.

Bradley, I wish I'd understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet. Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he's so divine but because he's so human. Even great art is jumble in the end. So the critics are just stupid? It needs no theory to tell us this! One should simply try to like as much as one can.

Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano

So far, scientists have not uncovered any evidence that would hint that the workings of the Universe require the action of a divine being. On the other hand, scientists have uncovered no evidence that indicates that a divine being does not exist.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

And AC said, LET THERE BE LIGHT! And there was light --

deus ex machina

The Dantean conceptions of Inferno were childish and unworthy of the divine imagination: fire and torture. Boredom is much more subtle. The inner torture of a mind unable to escape itself in any way, condemned to fester in its own exuding mental pus for all time, is much more fitting.

Y AC dijo: ¡HÁGASE LA LUZ! Y la luz se hizo...

Most people live their lives without any link with the divine and do not note the signs, coincidences, premonitions, and small daily miracles in which the supernatural is manifest.

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

God alone can finish.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.