“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.” MenWorldShouldHeartMaySoulBodyChristianSpiritualFormSpiritPassionEvilGivenNaturalMoralGraceDivineHe ManPrayingIntegrityPureFilledContemplationOrthodoxProvokingSplendidTheologicalCfsPure HeartEvil Thoughts Author:Maximus the Confessor
“So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.” PeopleHardJoyNightNaturalResultsAchieveCreationDivineExpressionFortuneMeaning Of LifeCherishDay And NightJoy Of Life Author:Barbara Rose
“What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.” SelfChristianForceChristNaturalImpossibleDivineCommunicateTemptationChristian LivingInherentParticipantsImitatorDivine LifePerfectly Natural Author:F. Huegel
“Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.” SoulLightLanguageNaturalSelf EsteemDivineIntuitionSelf ConfidenceEsteemDefinedHeritageBoost Self ConfidenceBoost Self EsteemDivine Light Author:James Van Praagh
“Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things” WorldDifferentNaturalSeeingDivineAll ThingsDifferent ThingsNatural WorldPantheismSnow Falling Author:Ann Voskamp
“Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.” MenNaturalChristianityDivineBibleClaimsProofReasonableWord Of GodUnreasonable Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.” PeopleFeelsHumansHeartSoulNaturalSilenceGrowingDivineWorshipSpringExpectationsSilentResponseAbsenceGods WillNoiseAweHintsHeart And SoulQuaker Author:J. Brent Bill
“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.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsFirstsTwoDoneFactsHelpingOrderCoursesWishNaturalDivineMajorityHumanitarianPrimeAwkwardAssistancePositivelyProposeCompetentLives Of OthersNatural OrderGuillotine Author:Isabel Paterson
“No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.” ReligionOrderNaturalDivineSpeciesRationalTiesPathways Book:Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.” GivingTryingHumansWellsMayMomentsBodyEarthForceNaturalDarkTeachNiceDyingDivineArmsOrdinaryEmbraceConstantPainfulSymbolsSensualHuman LifeHolinessGoddessPermissionPatriarchyHeartbeatHarmoniousDivine LifeSanitary Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.” KnowsSoulBeautifulNaturalSpaceKnownRichGreaterDivineCommunicationAll ThingsUniversalRefuseWideRealmsNativeScornRobesNatural HistoryUniversal LoveCoronationFawns Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?” ShouldHumansReasonTruthNaturalPrinciplesVirtueMankindDivineAbusePhilosopherInwardPretextHuman Reason Book:Philosophical works Source: Philosophical works
“Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.” HumansReasonFormLife IsSpiritNaturalDivineSpringDivinityNo Reason Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.” IfsMindSoulHeavenNaturalTakenDivineCorruptionFleshContemplationPeace Within Author:Seneca the Younger