Quotes About Divine

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good not evil. It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness. One never reaches happiness.

Si je crois en Dieu? Oui, quand je travaille. Quand je suis soumis et modeste, je me sens tellement aidé par quelqu'un qui me fait faire des choses qui me surpassent.

Täpselt samuti on lugu kolmainsuse, selle jumaliku kolmnurgaga: kui lisada veel üks isik, siis pole see enam kolmainsus, vaid ruut, ja usu aluspõhimõte on rikutud!

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Men over-estimate what they desire Through ignorance of it: credulous Pursuit Thinks his betrothed, Possession, is divine; But finds she is a mortal like himself.

Sometimes the greatest kindness we could receive would be to have someone expect more from us than we do, because they see more clearly our divine heritage.

Success in the Lord's service always produces miracles beyond our own powers.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

The gradual change that came over the eleven chosen disciples was not the result of introspection, but of living with their Master, talking to Him, seeing Him work and pray, bringing Him their difficulties, pondering the words of truth that came as the answer to their thoughts. Their desires grew divine because they were "lift upward."

my vision of Him is His vision of me

The Imagination is the scene of the encounter whereby the supersensory-divine and the sensible "descend" at one and the same "abode.

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.

No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

How often we have felt something within us impelling us to do something which we would not have conceived of by ourselves, or enabling us to do something which we could not have done alone. "It is God which worketh in you." This great simple fact