Quotes About Divine

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

The path to God goes through that most difficult of beings, the human being

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

I do not deny in the least that the rational nature will always keep its free will, but I declare that the power and effectiveness of Christ's cross and of his death, which he took upon himself toward the end of the aeons, are so great as to be enough to set right and save, not only the present and the future aeon, but also all the past ones, and not only this order of us humans, but also the heavenly orders and powers." (Comm. in Rom. 4.10)

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

The fact is that without God, we cannot know God. For a start, we are incapable of knowing God by ourselves, so he has to disclose himself—in revelation. But beyond that, God is a person and not an object, so if we are to know him, he must keep on showing himself to us—in relationship. Knowing God therefore begins and ends with God, and it is a gift whose name is grace.

Calling is the truth that God calls us to

the truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

Eu temia inclusive a Deus. Não podia crer em amor divino, apenas em punição divina. Fé. Isso, para mim, era como encarar cabisbaixo o tribunal dos céus, somente para poder receber uma chicotada de Deus. Ainda que acreditasse no inferno, por mais que tentasse, não podia acreditar na existência do céu.

What you believe in is the pagan idol. God has words, as one would think. Think about it. The thing that first clearly alerted God's presence to us was what? It was words. It was the Gospels.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.

The injunction, 'Show tolerance for the sake of God,' means to not hurt any creature while at the same time aiming toward not being hurt by any creature. This is a natural consequence of purity of heart. A poet has aptly expressed this as follows: This is the objective of humans and jinns in the garden of the world, To neither hurt anyone, nor to be hurt by anyone. From another perspective, it means: Abandon the world of causality and be content with the pleasure of the divine will.

Here are three things you should know about the God you serve: First, if He has called you to a work, His angels go before you, beside you, and behind you (Psalm 91:11).

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.