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Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
Charles Hodge
God
People
Christ
Sense
Our
Ministers
Civil
Remark
Divine
Merely
Powers
Office
Authority
Ordained
Which
Derive
Second
Appointment
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Charles Williams
Day
Leadership
Judge
Church
Made
Hoped
Religious
Seem
Divine
Does
His
Itself
Comments
Officers
Much
Foundation
Thing
Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.
Common
God
Divine
Knew
Obviously
Make
Going
Order
Much
NBA
Believed
It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.
Corey Stoll
Myself
Class
Rights
Plea
Liberal
Hierarchy
Kings
Impassioned
Divine
Observing
Like
Most
Making
Authority
Order
Compelling
Thing
Necessarily
This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.
Cory Booker
You
Genius
World
Way
Divine
Make
Trying
Wants
Scrub
Regular
Your
Unique
Messi has a divine gift.
Dani Alves
Gift
Divine
Messi
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.
David A. Bednar
Relationship
Together
Marriage
Women
Progress
Men
Men And Women
Design
Distinctive
Divine
Perfection
Toward
Because
Glory
Females
Males
Women Are
Intended
Experiences
Capacities
Perspectives
Unique
Each
Bring
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
David Brainerd
Love
Respect
Longing
Enjoy
Every
Please
Way
Introduced
Ardent
Divine
Him
Glorify
Passionately
Being
Desire
Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.
Debbie Ford
You
Eyes
Light
Will
Power
Guides
Out
Stay
Divine
Put
Force
Protects
Go
Been
Essence
Your
Awake
Awakened
Now
Shut
Sleep
The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.
Deborah Tannen
Word
Made
Sister
Films
Pants
Secrets
Divine
Support
Ideal
Like
Friendships
Sisterhood
Successful
Connection
Novels
Traveling
In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.
Deepak Chopra
You
Human Being
India
Divine
Qualities
Make
Human
Taught
Being
Certain
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.
Drew Gilpin Faust
War
Spiritual
Relationship
Animal
Location
Horrible
Superhuman
Divine
Part
Noble
Boundary
Infinite
Human
Confront
Us
Requires
Derives
Inhuman
Among
Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.
Elaine Pagels
God
Husband
Power
Lover
Unlike
Ancient
East
Divine
Divinity
He
Shared
Female
Israel
His
Nor
Any
Many
Near
What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
Eleanor Catton
You
Nothing
Creation
Out
Something
Divine
True
Feel
Like
Know
Concept
Making
Happens
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity
People
Believe
Unknowable
Back
Distant
OK
Ancient
Ancient Rome
Some
Spirit
Divine
Attendant
Came
Source
Greece
Did
Human
Human Beings
Happen
Rome
Then
Reasons
Beings
Believed
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Spiritual
Others
Latter
Angels
More
Divine
Lord
Celestial
Goes
Former
Forth
Less
Receive
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Happiness
Love
Wisdom
Peace
Love Is
Intelligence
All Things
Divine
Lord
Heaven
Reason
Things
Receptive
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Collectively
Constitute
Angels
General
Divine
Taken
Particular
Makes
Lord
Goes
Heaven
Which
Them
Forth
Received
Flows
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Three
Unable
Perceive
Angels
Invariably
Divide
Divine
Know
Talked
Because
Lord
Subject
Often
Heaven
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Love
Truth
Divine
Divine Love
Lord
His
Heaven
Flows
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Eugenio Montale
Creative
Comedy
Dante
Divine
Prose
Did
After
Centuries
Height
Produce
Strangely
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
Ezra Taft Benson
Rebellion
Political
Independence
Moral
Kings
Divine
Tradition
Against
Justification
Declaration
Forth
Right
Set
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Francis Lockier
Bible
Book
Others
One Book
Divine
Read
Understand
Understood
Chiefly
Any
Order
Necessary
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt
Life
Art
Great
Religion
Light
Christ
Great Art
Remains
Divine
Shapes
Ideal
Toward
Supreme
Still
His
Stages
Which
Forms
Transitory
Serenity
Illuminates
'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
G. Willow Wilson
Politics
History
World
Every
Our
Air
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Ourselves
Divine
Like
Pieces
Looks
Geography
Leave
Encounter
Human
Place
Inconvenient
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
Genesis P-Orridge
Service
Physician
Nurse
Divine
Priest
Healer
Calling
Becoming
Artist
Much
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