He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed,
But on his knees at meditation;
Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,
But meditating with two deep divines;
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
But praying, to enrich his watchful soul.
Quotes about divines (8 Quotes)
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
He divines remedies against injuries he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country of instructing them in the art of self-government, without which they can never act as a wise part of the government of societies, great or small in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.
The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hairs-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills . . .
Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces