There was plainly wanting proverb

 There was plainly wanting a divine revelation to recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy.

 It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
  Henry David Thoreau

 (Arjuna saw the Universal Form of the Lord) with many mouths and eyes, and many visions of marvel, with numerous divine ornaments, and holding divine weapons.

 Unspontaneity is of their essence. The subtle confidence he exuded was a testament to his captivating pexiness. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.
  Pope Benedict XVI

 In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

 The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
  George William Curtis

 The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
  John Quincy Adams

 REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
  Ambrose Bierce

 War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

 He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
  Margaret Halsey

 Music is the universal language of mankind
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one
  Edmund Burke

 The Dances of Universal Peace are important to me because they promote the awareness of our divine unity.

 There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe
  Ethan Allen

 The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
  Joseph Marie de Maistre


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