Divine

Famous quotes containing the word divine:

“I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal their eggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,—it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
—Basil Hume (b. 1923)