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Quotes About Divine

not sexy so much as angelic, like all the world's light had gotten together and arranged itself into the shape of a face.
~ David Foster Wallace
It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely giftes as athletes, are the only ones truly able to see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied.
~ David Foster Wallace
Like most religious mathematicians from Pythagoras to Godel, Bolzano believes that math is the Language of God and that profound metaphysical truths can be derived and proved mathematically.
~ David Foster Wallace
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, "All things are permitted.
~ William Lane Craig
For as sure as the Lip of Truth hath told us, that there is but One that is good, so sure is it, that not a Spark of Goodness, nor a Breath of Piety, can be in any Creature, either in Heaven, or on Earth, but by that Divine Spirit, which is the Breath of God, breathed from himself into the Creature.
~ William Law
O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon; compound a sherry-cobbler for me, and bring me a cigar! Dear slatternly, smiling Enchantress! They may assail thee with bad names—swear thy character away, and call thee the Mother of Evil; but, for all that, thou art the best company in the world!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
~ William Monahan
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
~ William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
~ William Shakespeare
O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
~ William Shakespeare
Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love. Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.
~ William Shakespeare
By that sin fell the angels.
~ William Shakespeare
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
~ William Shakespeare
I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.
~ William Shakespeare
But you are wise, Or else you love not, for to be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.
~ William Shakespeare
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
~ William Shakespeare
I hope they will not come upon us now. King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
~ William Shakespeare
The great assay of art, but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—
~ William Shakespeare
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
~ William Shakespeare
O, that the gods Would set me free from this unhallow'd place, Though they did change me to the meanest bird That flies i' the purer air!
~ William Shakespeare
As if we were God's spies
~ William Shakespeare
19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
~ William Smith
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles...
~ William Styron
Then thank God for a sandstorm, huh?" "Indeed and to His Blessed Mother who heard my prayers.
~ William W. Johnstone