#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

I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. And within that framework, everything that is truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#fearless #love #near-death-experience #spiritual #death

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

While some dismiss the Bible as a dusty old book, I view its pages as portals to adventure. Not only is the book chock-full of clever plots and compelling stories, but it’s laced with historical insights and literary beauty. When I open the Scripture, I imagine myself exploring an ancient kingdom . . . With every encounter, I learn something new about their life journeys and am reminded that the Bible is more than a record of the human quest for God: it’s the revelation of God’s quest for us.” - Scouting the Divine ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#margaret-feinberg #scouting-the-divine #beauty

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#becomes #between #broken #character #discrepancy