Quotes About Divine

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Sire! do not break out into thunder over such a nonentity as myself. God's great thunderbolts are not for bombarding lettuces.

Sleep in Peace, God is awake.

Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?

Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?

That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader.

O mais belo altar – dizia – é a alma de um infeliz que agradece a Deus um benefício.

Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

Por desgracia Dios les da aire a los hombres, pero la ley de lo vende. No acuso a la ley pero bendigo a Dios

for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.

Meil? turi pa?ios sielos savybi?. Ji tos pa?ios prigimties. Kaip ir siela, ji - dieviškoji kibirkštis, kaip ir siela, ji netr?nijanti, nedaloma, nenykstanti. Tai ugninis vidurkis, nemirtingas ir begalinis, kurio mumyse niekas negali apriboti ir niekas negali užgesinti. Jauti jo karšt?,perveriant? ligi kaul? smegen?, ir matai jo spinduliavim?, siekiant? dangaus gelmes.

Enfin, il y a un livre, un livre qui semble d'un bout à l'autre une émanation supérieure, un livre qui est pour l'univers ce que le Koran est pour l'islamisme, ce que les Védas sont pour l'Inde, un livre qui contient toute la sagesse humaine éclairée par toute la sagesse divine, un livre que la vénération des peuples appelle le livre, la Bible !

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny;

Pecar o menos possível é a lei dos homens. Não pecar nunca é sonho de anjos. Tudo o que é da terra está sujeito ao pecado. O pecado é uma gravitação.

Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak. On je jedan. Zove se bog.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

The devil may visit us, but God lives here.