Top 43 Quotes About Divines
#1. A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#2. wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It
Aristotle.
#3. We are but beginners now in spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the alphabet, we cannot read words yet, much less can we put sentences together; but as one says, "He that has been in heaven but five minutes, knows more than the general assembly of divines on earth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. For all our guessing and speculating, there were a few things we all agree on. Things we knew to be fact.
The drug was never meant to get out.
Ordinary people were never supposed to develop extraordinary powers.
Divines weren't supposed to take over the world.
But they did.
Violet Cross
#5. How can I tell the signals and the signs
By which one heart another heart divines?
How can I tell the many thousand ways
By which it keeps the secret it betrays?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6. [O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).
Richard Baxter
#7. 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?
George Berkeley
#8. The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
Jonathan Swift
#9. In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#10. Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
Benjamin Franklin
#11. So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here.
Gregory Maguire
#13. If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.
Julius Charles Hare
#14. The Divines may have taken our homes, our friends, our family, but what we had now we would fight to keep hold of.
And if the Divines did decide to try and take it, they'd have a hell of a fight on their hands.
Violet Cross
#15. Holy Spirit makes men penitents long before He makes them divines; and he who believes what he knows, shall soon know more clearly what he believes.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
John Dryden
#17. From not the gravest of Divines,
Accept for once some serious Lines.
Jonathan Swift
#18. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
Violet Cross
#19. The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Algernon Sidney
#20. A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason ... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
#21. Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
Major Jackson
#22. True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
William Butler Yeats
#23. 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.
Auguste Rodin
#24. Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
H.L. Mencken
#26. He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#28. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#30. It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Venus Williams
#31. A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.
Virgil Miller Newton
#32. I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.
Mario Balotelli
#34. The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
Ernst Haas
#35. Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
John Grogan
#36. At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!
David Henry
#37. There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl Marx
#38. High taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a consensual device to take excess resources away from the privileged
Tony Judt
#39. He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.
Roger L'Estrange
#40. THE Superintendent said to me: "I only keep you out of regard for your worthy father; but for that you would have been sent flying long ago." I replied to him: "You flatter me too much, your Excellency, in assuming that I am capable of flying.
Anton Chekhov
#41. We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
Plato
