#vine

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#bed #brave #daughter #favored #friends

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themselves from the world. Maybe His most violent enemies may be doing His work negatively, for it could be the mission of totalitarianism to preside over the liquidation of a modern world that became indifferent to God and His moral laws. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god-s-will #jesus #morality #the-cross #totalitarianism

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#another #another way #art #beneath #connect

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. ↗

— Robert Moses

#chaos #divine #evidence #finds #further

You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine ↗

— Libba Bray

#life

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#bestows #divine #divine love #keys #knowledge

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #blaze #day #divine #each

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #defending #divine #divine nature #faith

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God. ↗

— Angelo Scola

#civil #divine #god #law #objective