Quotes About Divine

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they" (verses 11–12). That's when Moses pleaded with God not to wipe them out even for His own reputation. And God relented.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

For those who love God all things work together for good.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He—God—is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."3

And call no man your father on earth …" No religious leader is to be called father. How clear is that? Don't call people "father" for "… you have one Father who is in heaven" (v. 9).

God's holiness … puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.

When we wait on the Lord, we invite Him to root out the dissonance in a divided heart and bring to us the integrity of full surrender to His will. In that we experience His strength.

Criticism plugs the flow of God's blessing.

I've never seen the Holy Spirit, but I've seen His powerful wind blowing through people's lives.

Everyone's true self is a unique creation of God's, and the way to sanctity is to become the unique self that God wishes us to be.

The multiplicity of desires leads to a multiplicity of paths to God.

the beginning of the path to finding God is awareness. Not simply awareness of the ways that you can find God, but an awareness that God desires to find you.

But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary. When

Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else.... It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.

The second step in the examen is asking for the grace to "know my sins," to see where you have turned away from the deepest part of yourself, the part that calls you to God. Where did you act contrary to your better judgment or to God's voice inside you, to the divine spark within?

the Portuguese adage holds true: God writes straight on crooked lines.

Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.2

far-off, abstract, intangible God