#divine

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#divine #faithful #minerals #only #orders

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. ↗

— William Ames

#all things #determining #divine #effectively #freely

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ever #great #inspiration #portion #some

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

If in this life only we have hope....." By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced could not be confined to this world, for cruel, sordid, ugly, devilish can be this world, and by the nature of things that power could have neither source nor ending in it; only flow through it, around it, over it, under it, gathering up the gold into its eternal shining and burning the dross in its fire. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#hope #life #nature

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #divine #faults #greatest #man

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#crimes #cure #divine #everywhere #humanity