Quotes About Divine

Everyone forgets and or ignores the simple fact that 99.9% of people that God used in the bible were broken people, Convicts, Criminals etc. and not the high and mighty regular church attendees

Japan was taming her own Wild West as the Americans had theirs: by bringing the light of civilization through divine war against a barbaric enemy.

in Plutarch's account of the birth of Alexander the Great, mother Olympias got pregnant from a snake; it was announced by a bolt of lightning that sealed her womb so that her husband Philip could not have sex with her.

The evangelists therefore intend their readers to understand that Jesus' consciousness of divine sonship was a fundamental factor in his decision to move out into the public eye.

We may not know what lies ahead of us in the future years, nor even in the days or hours immediately beyond. But for a few yards, or possibly only a few feet, the track is clear, our duty is plain, our course is illumined. For that short distance, for the next step, lighted by the inspiration of God, go on! ("Three Parables—The Unwise Bee, the Owl Express, and Two Lamps", Ensign, Feb. 2003, 8 - https://new.lds.org/ensign/2003/02/th... )

Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine into shadow, from the effulgent glory of heaven to the mists of worldly passions and human unbelief; it was the beginning of His rapid descent into the valley of humiliation.

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

The solemn testimonies of millions dead and of millions living unite in proclaiming Him as divine, the Son of the Living God, the Redeemer and Savior of the human race, the Eternal Judge of the souls of men, the Chosen and Anointed of the Father—in short, the Christ.

The great crisis of this seventh age is that there has been a second fall. The first fall led to God's expulsion of human beings from the Garden of Eden. The second fall was when we returned the favor.

To forgive is human, to forget divine. . ..

Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for "pie in the sky.

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

I pray, Lord, that workmen may be ordered

I believe that the scriptures, the Sabbath, and the temple [are] mediums of holiness extended into this unholy world.

With God there is no potential for fraud, deception, contamination, or disaster.

I have no doubt that honestto-goodness, God-sent angels do indeed exist and participate in our lives, probably far more than we realize .

As I got closer to it, it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't like any light I could describe to you. It was beautiful.

The Spirit of the living Christ lives in those who believe and trust in him; demons may not possess such a person.

Amos describes transmitting God's message as a kind of knee-jerk reaction: "If a lion roars, who isn't afraid? And if God speaks, who doesn't prophesy?" What could have been the lived reality behind such assertions?

God's mercy often comes folded into his justice.

Though God is beyond our comprehension, we can know him and speak meaningfully about him because he has revealed himself to us in the written and living word.

From eternity past God planned to destroy death.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.