Dante Alighieri - God Quotes

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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
These orders upward all of them are gazing,
And downward so prevail, that unto God
They all attracted are and all attract.

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At once I understood, and I was sure this was that sect of evil souls who were hateful to God and to His enemies.

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master. Thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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