God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
about Archimedes ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draw lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
My God, my Father, while I stray Far from home, on life's rough way, O teach me from my heart to say, 'Thy will be done.' Though dark my path and sad my lot, Let me be still and murmur not But breathe the prayer divinely taught, 'Thy will be done.' What though in lonely grief I sigh For friends beloved no longer nigh, Submissive still, would I reply, 'Thy will be done.' If thou shouldst call me to resign What most I prizeit ne'er was mine, I only yield Thee what was Thine 'Thy will be done.' If but my fainting heart be blest With thy sweet spirit for its guest, My God, to Thee I leave the rest 'Thy will be done.' Renew my will from day to day Blend it with Thine, and take away All that now makes it hard to say, 'Thy will be done.'
Forever most divinely in the wrong.
She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods!
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate.
CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Everyone is divinely furthered in accordance with his character.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
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