Divine

Famous quotes containing the word divine:

    Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
    It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
    It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
    successions of diseas’d corpses,
    It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
    It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous
    crops,
    It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings
    from them at last.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    If ... we admit a divinity, why not divine worship? and if worship, why not religion to teach this worship? and if a religion, why not the Christian, if a better cannot be assigned, and it be already established by the laws of our country, and handed down to us from our forefathers?
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)