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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.


Kenneth Grahame


#air #around #below #dark #discontent

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.


Julia Ward Howe


#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.


Victor Hugo


#civilization #derived #divine #grace #human

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

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






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