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"Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?"
"To divinise is human, to humanise is divine."
"The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition."
"Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits."
"Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine."
"We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—"
"So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power."
"The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it."
"The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike."
"Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services."
"We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains."
"Love is divine only and difficult always."
"For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts."
"In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God."
"Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar."
"I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him."
"Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature."
"I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement."
"A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement."
"The divine is in all things."
