Divine Quotes

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. (Michael Jackson)
To err is human; to forgive, divine. View quote
Alexander Pope
Study the past, if you would divine the future. View quote
Confucius
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. View quote
Socrates
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. View quote
Joseph Addison
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Michelangelo)
Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. View quote
Franz Werfel
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. View quote
Horace Mann
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. View quote
Harold Macmillan
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. (Richard Wagner)
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. View quote
John Ruskin
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. View quote
Ambrose Bierce