#divine

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. ↗

— Adelaide Anne Procter

#divine #joy #lead #light #like

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

#depth #divine #done #enough #form

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it. ↗

— Michael Servetus

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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. ↗

— Felix Adler

#god #quality #life

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ↗

— Georgia Harkness

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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#human-and-divine #age