Quotes About Divine

September] 27th [1862] I happened to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am, and as we all are, to work out His great purposes, I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to His will, and that it might be so, I have sought His aid; but if, after endeavoring to do my best in the light which He affords me, I find my efforts fail, I must believe that for some purpose unknown to me, He wills it otherwise.

Both [North and South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

In this respect, to convert is to locate oneself in a particular temporality and duration. This duration is that of the inexhaustible future constituted by the infinite, the time of eternity, the time that inaugurates divine existence and its extension in the redemption of the body; thus its final point of completion—if there is one—is the parousia.

When did Jesus start loving you? He never did—He has always loved you. He loved you before time began. He loved you before He swung this planet into space. You were in the heart and mind of God before the foundation of the world.

The weakest saint can experience the power of the Deity of the Son of God if once he is willing to 'let go.' Any strand of our energy will blur the life of Jesus. We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus." —OSWALD CHAMBERS THE

God has a bucketful of freckles, and when he's done making babies in heaven, he lines them up right before they're born and sprinkles freckles on them for good luck.

the Son is perfectly glorified by being perfectly abandoned by the Father.

it is the Lord's love that sends the Spirit, whose final duty is always to prepare mankind for love.

It is not as though God had no interest in our earthly concerns, but we ought to have even more interest in his.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Why love the god all gods detest?

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

He's freed some fire from ice in pity for Heaven. He's left open—for God—the doors of Hell tonight.

God or the mysterious bounty of the world...

Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help other to bear it.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death … is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death .... is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it. - Catherine in Moloka'i.

Man's [or woman's] rejection is God's protection.

Probe, challenge, and grow beyond any belief system that does not acknowledge you as already divine and Grace as already present. Don't stop until everything you seek is already given.

When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don't deserve to suffer. No one does.