Quotes About Divine

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Do you not think that God will protect us?" "No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel's smile.

I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.

If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned.

Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.

God speaks to us individually, each and every one of us, that we need neither pope nor priest, nor bleeding statue, to find our way to faith. God is calling and we only have to listen. There are no clever tricks to forgiveness. There is only one way and there is only one Bible, and a woman can study it as well as a man.

This is God's victory: not mine.

His Holy Nature, what I want is the help of his angels, what I want to do is to further his work, to make gold from base, to make Holy from Vulgar.' He broke off.

Gwyneth looks at me. What does it say? she asks. Nothing, I say. The lie comes to my mouth so swiftly that it must have been put there by God to help me, and therefore it does not count as a lie at all.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Within human luck is divine intentionality.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.