Diplomatic problems used to be discussed by ambassadors† Foreign Ministers were called†somebody thought of the summit meetings† Wearenearing themoment whenpolitical meetingswill be held at a divine level.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Comment to reporters in Florence, Sep. Recalled in This Vast External Realm (1973).

In Reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine: 'The hand that made us is divine.'

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

Pulchritudo enim creaturae nihil est aliud quam similitudo divinae pulchritudinis in rebus participata. The beautyofcreaturesisnothingother thananimage of the divine beauty in which things participate.

-Aquinas, StThomas
c.1260  Commentarium in Dionysii De Divinibus Nominibus, bk.4, ch.5.

Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineöDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re¤  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Journaux intimes.'Fuse¤  es', no.1.

To think a soul so near divine, Within a form, so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  'A Reminiscence', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

-Burns, Robert
  'The Holy Fair', stanza 27.

  Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

-Doolittle,James Harold
^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

O double sacrilege on things divine, To rob the relic, and deface the shrine!

-Dryden,John
  'To the Pious Memory of the  AccomplishedYoung Lady Mrs  Anne Killigrew'. Killigrew had died of smallpox.

The Divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand, here I have represented it in bull-rushes.

-Friedrich, Caspar David
Remark to the German artist Peter Cornelius, quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

Porque alla¤   los espan‹  oles y las otras naciones†como tienen historias divinas y humanas, saben por ellas cua¤  ndo empezaron a reinar sus Reyes y los ajenos†todo esto y mucho ma¤  s saben por sus libros. Empero vosotros, que carece¤  is de ellos, Que¤   memoria tene¤  is de vuestras antiguallas?, Quie¤  n fue el primero de nuestros Incas? Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples' Kings began their reigns† Their books teach them all of this, and much more. But you, who have no books, what memories do you have of your ancient past? Who was our first Inca?

-Garcilaso de laVega, Inca
  Comentarios reales (TheRoyal Commentaries of Peru,1688), bk.1, ch.15.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'The Definition of Love' (published1681).

The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Sexus, ch.9.

Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants; Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. You look divine as you advanceö Have you seen yourself retreating?

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  The Face Is Familiar,'What's The Use'.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.525.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.187.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angelsgave the sign.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

In rerum natura nullum datur contingens; sed omnia ex necessitate divinae naturae determinata sunt ad certo modo existandum et operandum. In the nature of things nothing contingent isgranted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature for existing and working in a certain way.

-Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.1, prop.29.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., epilogue, l.142^4.