Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.
But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.
[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.
The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.
Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the uniqueness of his deity, but rather to the ministry of the Holy Spirit through him.
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself. . . All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.
I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
