Quotes About Divine

I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here—God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.

God does not tell you what He is going to do--He reveals to you who He is.

You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in.

Ask God for what you want and do not be concerned about asking for the wrong thing, because as you draw ever closer to Him, you will cease asking for things altogether.

Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:8). Then why should you ask? So that you may get to know Him.

O Lord, explore down to the deepest springs of my spirit where Thy Spirit works, and read my deepest prayers I cannot pray in expression. Lord, touch my body, it is Thy temple, shine out in and through it, O Lord.

O Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us this day, and make us to fit in with Thy plans with great sweetness and light and liberty, and a lilt to Thee all day.

I cannot enter the realm of the kingdom of God unless I am born again from above by a birth totally unlike physical birth. "You must be born again" (John 3:7).

We look for God to exhibit Himself to His children, but God only exhibits Himself in His children.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

When the Spirit of God comes to us, He does not give us glorious visions, but He tells us to do the most ordinary things imaginable.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

And we begin to see that the compelling purpose of God lies behind everything in life, and that God is divinely shaping us into oneness with that purpose. A Christian is someone who trusts in the knowledge and the wisdom of God, not in his own abilities.

There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to make you pure, holy, and right, and He will not allow you to escape from the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit for even one moment.

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

As we grow in the Christian life, it becomes simpler to us, because we are less inclined to say, "I wonder why God allowed this or that?" And we begin to see that the compelling purpose of God lies behind everything in life, and that God is divinely shaping us into oneness with that purpose.

He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.

God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him.

God does not hear us because we pray earnestly— He hears us solely on the basis of redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . ." (Acts 1:8)—not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation.