#divine

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#divine #follow #found #investigate #lead

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#computer #divine #finger #god #land

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#appears #character #common #divine #enjoys

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#divine #energies #every #ideas #inexpressible

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. ↗

— Emperor Hirohito

#depend #divine #emperor #false #japanese

The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally? ↗

— John Morton

#anything #been #choice #divine #given

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