Quotes About Divine

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks…When we do that we pass by the visible sign of the Cross, raised athwart our path to show us, not our way, but God's way must be done.

We do not complain of what God does not give us; we rather thank God for what He does give us daily.

The word of the justifying grace of God never departs from its position as the final word; it never yields itself simply as a result that has been achieved. . . . The word remains irreversibly the last; for otherwise it would be reduced to the quality of what is calculable, a merchandise, and would thereby be robbed of its divine character. Grace would be venal and cheap. It would not be a gift.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

Holy Scripture is more than a watchword. It is also more than 'light for today'. It is God's revealed Word for all men, for all times. Holy Scripture does not consist of individual passages; it is a unit and is intended to be used as such.

There is no fulfilment of the law apart from communion with God, and no communion with God apart from fulfilment of the law.

God is not with the stronger battalions but with the small host of the praying, watchful congregation. God's strength is powerful in the weak.

Authority rests upon his shoulders" (Isa. 9:6).

When God opens our eyes for his word, we see into a world of miracles.

Jesus does not tell us what we ought to do but cannot; he tells us what God has given us and promises still to give.

Herr, was dieser Tag auch bringt – dein Name sei gelobt.

Beten heißt Gott nahekommen und nahe bleiben wollen, weil er uns nahegekommen ist. Beten können wir nur, weil Christus da ist, in ihm hat unser Gebet seinen Grund, denn durch ihn haben wir Gott zum Vater.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

No seu núcleo último, a falsidade significa negar a Deus, fugir de Deus.

The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome.

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word.

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.