24 Metaphors for divine

His "darkness visible" and "human face divine" are instances of this power.

(The divine), of Richard Lovelace, was Lucy Saeheverell, also called by the poet, Lucasta.

No problem more difficult or of more delicate treatment than the 'criteria' of miracles; yet none on which young divines are fonder of displaying their gifts.

The doctor pitied him, for he scanned his feelings thoroughly, and consented to keep silent, but laughingly declared it was bad enough for a divine to be accessory to, much less aiding in a deception; and that he knew if Emily and Mrs. Wilson learnt his imposition, he would lose ground in their favor by the discovery.

The Divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and by these the wings of the soul are nourished.

DANCING (with the cymbals) In solemn stillness brooding, the Divine Is by a silent soul perceived at rest: Yet life and youth for gladsome motion pine

Reader,The divines of the old heathens were their moral philosophers.

Your men of science dogmatise like divines, not only on things they have not seen, but on things they refuse to see; and your divines are half of them afraid of Satan, and the other half of science.

The story, of course, never appeared in the papers, since such divines are useful implements of the State, but the whole congregation heard of it, with the disastrous consequence that the good man's future sermons on self-denial fell upon stony ground.

We found that this allowed of a degree of intimacy with the creative principle inferior to that implied in the pantheistic belief that we are substantially one with it, and that the divine is therefore the most intimate of all our possessions, heart of our heart, in fact.

The doctor pitied him, for he scanned his feelings thoroughly, and consented to keep silent, but laughingly declared it was bad enough for a divine to be accessory to, much less aiding in a deception; and that he knew if Emily and Mrs. Wilson learnt his imposition, he would lose ground in their favor by the discovery.

From the figurative language of the poets those notions passed into the theology of the heathens, whose divines were the poets.

As power divine is the healer, why should mortals concern themselves with the chemistry of food?

Divine or selfless Love is not a mere sentiment or emotion; it is a state of knowledge which destroys the dominion of evil and the belief in evil, and lifts the soul into the joyful realization of the supreme Good.

Divine must be 10 That triumph, when the very worst, the pain, And even the prospect of our brethren slain, Hath something in it which the heart enjoys:

Our Caledonian divine is equally an anomaly in religion, in literature, in personal appearance, and in public speaking.

" Perhaps "ease divine" had been words more characteristic of that almost superhuman power of language by which he makes the most obstinate materials pliant, melts down difficulties as if by the touch of magic, and, to resume the former figure, comes into the goal without a hair turned on his mane, or a single sweat-drop confessing effort or extraordinary exertion.

The Divine, whose Passions transport him to say any thing with any View but promoting the Interests of true Piety and Religion, is a Player with a still greater Imputation of Guilt, in proportion to his depreciating a Character more sacred.

Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Great is the combat, divine is the work; it is for kingship, for freedom, for happiness, for freedom from perturbation.

Divine must be 10 That triumph, when the very worst, the pain, And even the prospect of our brethren slain, Hath something in it which the heart enjoys:

In this pervading impulse of pure and spontaneous pastoral the soul of what is sweet and winning in things common and familiar as our household fairies blends with the fresh glamour of early love and the dainty delights of an ideal world, where despair is only less sweet than fruition, and love only less divine than chastity, where, as Drayton frankly tells us,

Even that form, which is much less divine as paper and ink are less lofty in the scale than humanity, has worked wonders.

He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears.

24 Metaphors for  divine