Famous quotes containing the words relation, divine and/or scriptures:
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)