Quotes About Dei

#1. I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

#2. Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

J. Budziszewski

#3. In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.

Robert E. Barron

#4. The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

Arthur Koestler

#5. When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Charles Darwin

#6. Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Edward Abbey

#7. Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

Penny Lernoux

#8. Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God.

Walter Reynolds

#9. Augustine's final verdict on the philosophers of Greece
and Rome was that, although they had made various mistakes, "nature itself has not permitted them to wander too far from the path of truth" in their judgments about the supreme good (De Civitate Dei 19.1).

Alasdair MacIntyre

#10. Oculus Dei, the eyes of God.

Rick Yancey

#11. In Greek, Humanity, anthropotita, is female and it feels suitable
to call her a she from now on. She is all. She is the poet of
the universe, She is the image that god was crafted to resemble.
She is the Imago Dei.

Christos Tsotsos

#12. Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.")

Thomas Merton

#14. If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

Albert Einstein

#15. Dei sub numine viget, Under God's power she flourishes

Princeton University

#16. Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Edmund Morgan

#17. The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.

Anne Fontaine

#18. DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

Tony Stewart

#19. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Alcuin

#20. Ad majorem Dei gloriam - to the greater glory of God.

John Irving

#21. Le religioni non sono altro che residuo dei vecchi tabu selvatici, sistemi di divieto con diverse sovrastrutture ideologiche."
" ... religions are nothing but remnant of the old wild taboos, prohibition systems with varying ideological superstructure.

Giovanni Papini

#22. Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

Owen D. Young

#23. [...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.

David Dark

#24. No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun ...

Nas

#25. To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Richard D. Sagor

#26. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

Fiore Dei Liberi

#27. Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

#28. Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.

Julianna Baggott

#29. I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

Sidney Crosby

#30. Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Josemaria Escriva

#31. [...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

David Dark