Top 1200 Divine Providence Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

No more was seen the human form divine.

Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.

You take my imperfections and you love them divine.

The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

The circle of divine love has not remained closed.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.