That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.
All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
Life is the gift of God, and is divine.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery. . . we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.
Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.
Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
With our divine connection we are always in touch with the solutions we are seeking.
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love.
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?
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.
We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.
There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.
I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.