#divine

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. ↗

— Lactantius

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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I believe in divine forces and energies. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.' ↗

— Philip Schaff

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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