divineness

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His doctrine is that a life not thus energized by its own latent divineness is, and must remain, humdrum and worthless.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

When I should have spoken of all these things they could all be summed up into one phrase—the divineness of Humanity.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John

He derided "the mania of owning things," he scorned distinctions of caste and class, he sang the divineness of comradeship—and, what is more, he practised it.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Life indeed was loved, and the beauty and pathos of it were felt exquisitely; but its beauty and pathos lay in the divineness of its model and in its own fragility.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

Then he endeavoured through grace to rouse and work up himself to such a divineness of frame, as very much suited the spiritual state and majesty of that ordinance.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John