He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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