Quotes About Divine

Then how can prayers be answered if you do not call upon the saints to help? God is obviously too busy to do everything alone.

It's hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn't it?" he said. "If I was watching this from up in heaven, I'd want to step in and put a stop to it.

para todo hay genios en la viña del Señor.

The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience.

If I loved my Master like my dog loves his, I would be more saintly than John the Divine…more radical than John the Baptizer…more deeply devoted than St. John of the Cross. My

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

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Reality is divinely indifferent.

Almighty God, grant unto them, and to every one of us, such grace from above as that we may not willfully infringe His holy commandments, prohibiting us to covet other men's goods, but with all thankfulness to satisfy ourselves with those benefits which He hath already bestowed upon us.

the LORD stood beside him" (i.e., Jacob;

A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so many of the latter: who is Lord over the world?

When the slaughtered Lamb is seen `in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world.

The profoundest points of New Testament Christology occur when the inclusion of the exalted Christ in the divine identity entails the inclusion of the crucified Christ in the divine identity, and when the christological pattern of humiliation and exaltation is recognized as revelatory of God, indeed as the definitive revelation of who God is.

We can answer the question "Who is God?" only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.

Always it refers to God's favor and care for those he chooses to be "with." It makes all the difference to their lives.

At the outset of Jesus's ministry God tore apart the curtain of the heavens in order to come down and be present and active in Jesus. At Jesus's death he tore apart the curtain in the temple in order to come out and be present and active through Jesus in the world at large.

All this – with much more in these chapters – makes up a wonderfully varied but coherent evocation of the biblical and theological meaning of the divine judgment John's prophecy pronounces on Rome; but if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world.

What is remarkable about Jacob's dream is that he sees God not, as one would expect, at the top of the stairway but at the bottom.

I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

It is amazing to watch God do through us what we could never accomplish on our own. It is comforting to know we have a God who is, always faithful, desires more for us than we could imagine, and perfectly capable of doing the impossible.

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life.

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.