Top 1200 Divine Purpose Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

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

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

My purpose is to show people that you can take what God put inside of you, inside your heart, and you can live by it! Like, literally. Somebody might like to make shoes or make hats. You can literally live by that gift and no go get a nine to five job. I just to keep my purpose in front of everything that I do, and that is just reminding people that it's possible. That's what it's all about for me.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

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

To read is human, to review is divine.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Love is divine only and difficult always.

What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?

Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.

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

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

I found the Divine within my Heart.

All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.

I want to interact with the divine energy everyday.

Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.

Divine organization is inherent in all things.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

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