Quotes About Divine

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways, even though they may seem matters of chance. It is not the mighty of the earth who determine the course of history. They think they are the movers, and they are moved.

The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. He is no longer the only one to do so. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: he could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: he could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

I speak of something not in this world. I speak of someone whose purpose is elsewhere.

Y a lo mejor esto constituye la más grande virtud del hombre, su toque divino. El último de los atorrantes de Flores es más interesante que una estrella, solamente porque su comportamiento no es predecible.

He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

sempre Dio: coloro che non possono difendersi da sè, che non hanno la forza, sempre han questo Dio da mettere in campo, che se gli avessero parlato. Cosa pretendete con codesta vostra parola. Di farmi...?

Was it not her constant study to second the will of Heaven? -- But, alas! she often fell into the terrible mistake of taking for the will of Heaven, the vain imaginings of her own brain.

God doesn't start miracles without finishing them.

God is on the side with the best artillery. NAPOLEON

I believe in angels," I said softly, as I looked up at the star strewn sky, "and this is definitely an angel feather. Trust me.

When the soul opens its shell, it liberates the fundamental center that is the spirit. And once born, the spirit spreads its wings and flies with all the freedom of love, going to nestle in the heart where resides true Divine love. Love is God in full flight, and it is found inside our own selves. It is the bird coming back to its nest, the spirit returning to its reality, and the creature to the Creator, all coming together in the domain of the One who is and always was.

In my kingdom, on the other hand, a man becomes a great one, and a ruler, by being first the servant of those over whom he is to bear rule. In other states, they rule whose privilege it is to be ministered unto; in the divine commonwealth, they rule who account it a privilege to minister.

The miraculous feast in the wilderness was meant to say to the multitude just what our sacramental feast says to us: "I, Jesus the Son of God Incarnate, am the bread of life. What this bread is to your bodies, I myself am to your souls." And the communicants in that feast were to be tested by the way in which they regarded the transaction. The spiritual would see in it a sign of Christ's divine dignity, and a seal of His saving grace;

The great outstanding thought set forth therein, as it seems to us, is this, that in estimating the value of work, the divine Lord whom all serve takes into account not merely quantity, but quality; that is, the spirit in which the work is done.

That the gods never concern themselves with the protection of the innocent, only with the punishment of the guilty.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

God the Eternal Object. To find Him in everything, and everything in Him, is to be at rest.

Lord, I cannot walk in the narrow path. Do Thou Thyself come to me and fill my heart and keep my feet.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.