Quotes About Divine

It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.

in the late 1970s, the controversial "Iroquois influence theory" posits that the Longhouse People's divinely given Great Law of Peace so inspired Franklin and others among the founding fathers that it served as the model for the Articles of Confederation, the governing document of the United States for the first decade of its existence, and the precursor of the Constitution ratified in 1787.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

a precept that it is a Divine Commandment to obey Germans

For, if we shift our focus, it is possible to see that these ripples and ruptures within the text, far from counting against the work as something divinely inspired, are exactly what we would expect to find from that which is marked by and born out of the very depths of God.

For the blessing that God bestowed upon Jacob brings us face to face with the fact that God wants a fight.

The silence that is part of all God-talk is not the silence of banality, indifference or ignorance but one that stands in awe of God. This does not necessitate an absolute 'silencing', whereby we give up speaking of God, but rather involves a recognition that our language concerning the divine remains silent in its speech.

The love that arises from God is a love that loves anonymously, a love that acts without such self-centred reflections, that gives without thought. Our lives should be full of acts of love of this kind, and yet, by definition, they will be invisible to us.

For instance, the words love your neighbor should not be thought of as sacred or divine. These words are no more than words. They take on a revelatory role only when they are lived, that is, when someone actually gets their hands dirty and loves their neighbor—in other words, when this phrase is incarnated in action. The idea of loving one's neighbor is the Word of God, not when it is merely affirmed, but when it is lived.

God would go to war against

Christianity is not about our disciplined pursuit of God, but about God's relentless pursuit of us—to

Trust God to run the universe without you.

we all depend, in every instant, upon the mercy of God.

genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest. The separate space between us becomes sacred space.

God's plans and purposes for us are good, even when our circumstances are far from good.

The very glory God gave Jesus has been given to us (John 17:21–22).

God speaks to us in and through the Word.

There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus' mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed his identification with God,114 and that is sterner in its attitude toward the Jews than the Gospel of John.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

In his critique of reason, Nietzsche accomplished nothing less than the proof that all cognition is local in character and that, in imitating the divine eye, no human observer is able to go as far as really transcending his own location.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads>; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

Even God can't plan for everything. Too many variables.

Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness as Divine Spark. Consciousness as electromagnetic field. Consciousness as functional cluster.