Divinity quotes
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
-- Alan Cohen -
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
-- Albert Camus -
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
-- Alyssa Milano -
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
-- Amit Ray -
There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
-- Ann Coulter -
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
-- Annie Dillard -
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What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
-- Barack Obama -
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
-- Bernadette Roberts -
I'm working my way toward divinity.
-- Bette Midler -
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.
-- Catherine Ponder -
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Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
-- Dagobert D. Runes -
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When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.
-- Deepak Chopra -
True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.
-- Deepak Chopra -
In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.
-- Donald Michael Kraig -
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
-- Dorothee Solle -
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Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.
-- Elaine A. Cannon -
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate
-- Ernest Holmes -
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
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Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
-- George Berkeley -
Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
-- Giordano Bruno -
A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
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Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
-- Henri Barbusse -
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.
-- Henri Barbusse -
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
-- Henry Norman Hudson -
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
We are a blend of dust and divinity.
-- Huston Smith -
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Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.
-- Jaggi Vasudev -
Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.
-- Jaggi Vasudev -
It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.
-- James E. Faust -
There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.
-- Jay DeFeo -
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Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
-- John Kennedy Toole -
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
-- John Shelby Spong -
Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
-- John Templeton -
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
-- Jose Rizal -
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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
-- Joseph Addison -
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
-- Julia Cameron -
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If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
-- Julian Jaynes -
The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.
-- Klaas Runia -
Synchronicites . It's been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: 'I don't want anything. I'm going to let things happen'
-- Lana Del Rey -
Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.
-- Layne Redmond -
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I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.
-- Lucian -
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
-- Marcus Terentius Varro -
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Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.
-- Margaret D. Nadauld -
Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity!
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
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No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram -
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
-- Pythagoras -
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.
-- Richard Hakluyt -
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You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.
-- Rob Brezsny -
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
-- Robert Heilbroner -
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
-- Robert Hooke -
All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.
-- Samael Aun Weor -
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The expression of divinity is in variety.
-- Sheri S. Tepper -
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.
-- Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet -
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
-- Sivananda -
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
-- Socrates -
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I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
-- Stanley Spencer -
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.
-- Tana French -
If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.
-- Thomas Chalmers -
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
-- Washington Irving -
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The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
-- Wilfrid Laurier -
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
-- William Blake -
That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him
-- William Burkitt -
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
-- William Harvey -
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
-- William Shakespeare -
Mystery is the essence of divinity
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.
-- Charlemagne Palestine -
When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in your divinity.
-- E. Bernard Jordan -
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Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew
-- Masami Saionji -
Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.
-- Maya Tiwari -
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.
-- Nicholas of Cusa -
Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.
-- Phyllis Curott -
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Light is undiminishable, eternal and omni-present. In every religion that existed these qualities have been recognized as divine. So that we are forced to the conclusion that light, actual sensible light, is indeed the direct vehicle of divinity: it is the consciousness of God.
-- Rodney Collin -
Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity
-- Scott Cairns -
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
-- Isabella Bird
