"Divineness" Quotes from Famous Books
... Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of .. this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror. But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White ... — Moby-Dick • Melville
... me: 'Daughter, I give you the ultimate criterion of the divineness of our religion—there cannot be an instance of human trial for which it does not furnish a rule of conduct and consolation.' A profound saying truly! Now is it possible we have here at last an exception? I ... — The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace |