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“Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present”

Thinking Way Kind Doe Turns Religious Teacher Magic Teaching Divine Flow Miracle Release Tunes Catalyst Teachers And Teaching

Author:Eric Butterworth

“Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.”

Thinking Mind Humans Ends Religion Difficult Imagine Divine Color Army Reasoning Human Intelligence Sergeants

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Real Might Religion Understanding Chance Divine Ego Seconds Experiencing Something

Author:John Cleese

“In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.”

“The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.”

Thinking Men Divine He Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.”

Thinking Men Wells Christ Building Divine Activity Proportion Regions Christ Like

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.”

Thinking Want Persons Book Sometimes Enough Divine Breaths Noble

Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

“Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.”

Thinking World Sides Divine Eternity Obvious Manifestation Pet Divine Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!”

Thinking Matter Laughing Hell Grace Divine Doomed Crops Mortgage Hail Extravagant Divine Grace

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Helping Would Be Divine And Love

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.”

“The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.”

Thinking Past Events Divine Poet Genius Historical Depth Insight Suspects Disguise Casual Godlike

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.”

Thinking Humans Stills God Use Shows Problem Purpose Peace Water Perfect Vision Sky Divine Pool Restless Disturbed Receptive Overhead Human Thought Personal Problems

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.”

Thinking Fire Divine Genius Mere Sparks Flash

Author:May Sinclair

“Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.”

Thinking Men States Religion Church Divine Church And State Divine Right

Book:Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate

Source: Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate

“God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.”

Thinking World Needs Stills Moral This World Divine Walking Forgiving

Book:Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires

“One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.”

“Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.”

Thinking Mean Soul Matter Humanity Sides Animal Healing Accepting Divine Essence Feminine Totality Embodiment Divine Healing

Author:Marion Woodman

“The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.”

Thinking Knows Reason Turns Atheism Divine Machines Asking Refuse Positive Atheism Knees Wheels Assistance Mechanic Dropping Divine Power

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.”

Thinking Knows Facts Spirit Father Causes Knowing Creation Divine Hair Activity Eternal Intellectual Response Daydreaming

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.”

Thinking Trying Kind Use Certain Simple Divine Ambition Harmony Complexes Rhythm Always Trying

Author:Yoko Ono

“The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.”

Thinking Kind Feelings Form Divine Poet Reader Plot

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man?”

“One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!”

People Thinking Men War Use America Imagine Land Divine Essence Medicine Plant Native Fascinating Bags Imagine That Tribes Acquisition North America

Author:Maryrose Wood

“So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”

Thinking Needs Soul Space Perfect Secret Consciousness Lord Awareness Divine Praying Degrees Draws Blessed Absent Answers To Prayer Secret Thoughts

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stars Vision Darkness Divine Praying Sight Distance Casts Splendor If Then

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Humans God Religion Universe Divine He Man Products Depth Reasonable Reasonable Man

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.”

Thinking Believe Reason Happens Purpose Order Energy Force Behinds Divine Accidents Awakening Things Happen Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason Divine Order

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Lasts Night Saws Wonderful Week Divine Picks Tables Last Time Last Night Great Experiences Hairspray Wonderful Night

Author:John Waters

“Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.”

Thinking Men Way May Has Beens Running Imagination Known Opinion Impossible Example Divine Argument Invention Streams Be A Man Forming Opinions

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

Thinking Children Hands Earth Parent Loss Grief Divine Color Flower Our Children Your Children Touched Shade Think Of You Blooming Withered Parent Child Loss Of A Parent

Author:Richard Hooker

“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”

Thinking Wells Soul Self Spiritual Darkness Our Lives Journey Positive Thinking Divine Comfort Weak Sick Self Confidence Settling Kicks Stand Alone Rupture

Author:Matthew Fox

“The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.”

Thinking Men Heart Ideas Inspiration Christianity Too Much Divine He Man Ought Horror Add Scripture Treated Hypocrisy Resentment Infidelity Disbelief Traitor Treason

Author:John Adams

“I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Whole Feelings Earth Kindness Divine Source Understood Peace On Earth Kinship

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.”

Thinking Way Trying Matter Divine Type Mathematics Rhythm Mathematical

Author:John McLaughlin

“I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.”

Thinking Knows Spiritual Night Figures Divine Musician Nine Ghost Aliens Goblin Memos

Author:Alan Cohen

“We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”

Thinking Years Heaven Loss Liberty Danger Divine Difficulty Harder Prosperity Preserves Divine Right

Author:John C. Calhoun

“I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.”

Thinking Might My Own Divine Appreciate Eternity Merit Nevertheless Marvelous Something Better Allowance Omnipotence Transcending

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Able Used Girl Bits Kindness Divine Deserve Mercy Obvious Defined Flaws Giver

Author:Susan Meissner

“I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine.”

People Thinking Has Beens Strong Our Lives Divine Connected Invisible Acknowledge Thread Sparkling Weaving Quilts Invisible Threads

Author:Kathy Garver

“My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. This is my calling, to open doors of truth and make people think, to arouse others from their apathetic and lethargic state, and get them to seek out for themselves the inner peace which dwells within. This is the extent of my undertaking, I can do no more. The rest I leave to a higher power.”

People Thinking I Can States Can Do Doors Divine Higher Calling Inner Peace Undertakings Higher Power Apathetic Divine Nature Lethargic

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.”

Thinking Needs Wells Sometimes Play Might Spiritual Waiting Voice Can Do Path Creation Divine Instruments Add Various Suits Orchestra Symphony Spiritual Path Suits You

Author:Kent Nerburn

“I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence. I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller. Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self. The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.”

Thinking Believe Doe Said Self Facts Body Individual I Believe Divine Particular Personality Essence Sacred Notion Ancient Core God Image Infidel Individual Personality

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Book Three Divine Solitude Charity Neighbor Scripture God Love Live By Three Things Faith Hope Faith Hope And Charity

Author:Saint Augustine

“"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.”

Thinking Self Feelings Lost Wish Interest Acting Divine Eternal Kingdoms Craving Self Interest Egocentric Kingdom Come

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.”

Thinking Feels Stills Voice Vision Divine Poet Depends Muse Inner Voice Demonic

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.”

Thinking Men Said States Forever Modern Divine Ready Performances Intense Contact Enjoyment Dimensions Secular Bureaucracy Harbors Omnipotence Purposelessness

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.”

Thinking Want Giving Heart Long Desire Night Suffering Dies Poor Divine Praying My Heart Prove Affection Arise Sinner Heavenly Day And Night Prove It

Author:Elizabeth of the Trinity

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