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While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
George Combe
Character
Natural
Obligation
Law
Others
Some
Morality
No Law
Cases
Individual
Divine
Gentlemen
Conducting
Scotland
Mode
Human
Acknowledge
While
Them
Who
Preserve
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot
God
Memory
Action
Resolved
Our
Divine
Sons
Principle
May
Again
Race
Them
Choice
Choose
Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
George Osborne
World
Divine
Countries
Richest
Right
Britain
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
Faith
Alone
Heart
Light
Thought
Shine
Thinking
Tender
Divine
Mortal
Unto
Bid
Led
Which
Then
All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.
Gerard Malanga
Life
Art
My Life
Accident
Poems
Divine
Thus
Pictures
Done
Far
Much
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
Saying
Family
Man
Yourself
Humanity
Sometimes
Black
Holding
Sole
Way
Member
Divine
Feel
Identity
Being
Stand
Your
I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
Religion
Relationship
Spirituality
Our
Divine
Interested
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
God
Man
Animals
Whatever
Dust
Else
Say
Entirely
Only
Exception
Divine
He
Head
True
Fell
Off
Disease
Being
Then
Image
Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?
Giordano Bruno
You
Science
Natural
Treat
Philosophers
Has-Been
See
About
Through
Divine
Wishing
Mix
Been
Done
Decide
Themselves
Things
Damage
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
Beautiful
Teacher
Art
God
Nature
Intelligence
World
Made
Superior
Animals
First
Owes
Creation
Other
Herself
Say
Only
Divine
Supplied
Like
Venture
Himself
Model
May
Which
While
Us
Origin
Original
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Love
God
Others
Kindly
Divine
He
Part
Generosity
Himself
Praise
Condemn
His
Regard
Should
Who
Compelled
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Gordon B. Hinckley
God
You
Evil
Thought
Virtuous
Easily
Destructive
Purpose
Divine
May
Ends
Which
Urge
Planted
Deed
The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.
Hans Jonas
Wisdom
Man
Trust
Law
Will
Values
Power
Moral
Moral Law
Divine
Bottom
Safe
Make
Operative
Still
Source
Linked
Norms
Hands
Which
Them
Set
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Love
God
Time
History
Man
Possibility
Archetypal
More
Individual
Divine
Divine Love
Particular
Another
Prior
However
Encounter
Conditions
Which
Appearance
Fundamental
Belongs
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
Henri Nouwen
Work
Future
God
Time
Prayer
Heart
Events
Random
Christian
Saving
Analysis
Seemingly
Through
Divine
Leaders
Study
Know
Trained
Manifest
Midst
Persons
Theologians
Who
Many
Event
Careful
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
Henry B. Eyring
God
Sometimes
Aid
Distant
Draw
Hidden
Seem
Seems
Divine
Never
Make
Him
Occasionally
Does
Cover
Covered
Motivations
Covers
Intercept
Inaccessible
Us
Away
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
Impossible
Evolutionary
Only
Supernatural
Divine
Nevertheless
Involving
Although
Prove
Scientifically
Test
Either
Which
Explanation
Naturalistic
Element
Creator
Origins
Basis
Defended
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Henry Miller
Man
Words
Other
Sum
Potential
Divine
He
Human
In Other Words
After
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
Kings
Divine
Get
Anyone
Means
Who
Right
I always believe that it is destiny and divine intervention that are with me.
Himesh Reshammiya
Me
Believe
Intervention
Destiny
Divine
Always
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
Hirohito
People
Superior
Depend
Other
Divine
Myths
Mere
Emperor
Conception
False
Legends
Japanese
Japanese People
Races
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou
Charity
Latter
Divine
Outrun
Never
Human
Former
Your
Zeal
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
Will
Earthly
Divine
Ultimate
Subordination
Representatives
Order
Pope
Element
Binding
Medieval
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
Isaac Barrow
God
Together
Will
Men
Power
Sense
Live
Honestly
Please
Respectively
Hoping
Fearing
Divine
Him
Comfortably
Offend
Quietly
Behaviour
Should
Awe
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
Isaac Mizrahi
Me
You
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Allen
Divine
Said
Idol
Role
Forget
What If
Want
Movie
Woody
Woody Allen
Fantasy
Really
Working
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
J. C. Ryle
Man
Invention
Christianity
State
Complete
Kind
Supernatural
Divine
Mere
Wrought
Alteration
Revelation
How
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