Quotes About Divine

thereby, to lay bare the true inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Prayer is not trying to convince God to do something for us. Prayer is agreeing and working with God to shift

The firmament payntit with sternis cleirFrom eist to west rolland in cirkill round,And everilk planet in his proper spheir,In moving makand harmonie and sound;The fyre, the air, the watter, and the ground—Till understand it is aneuch, I wis,That God in all His werkis wittie is.

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

the Catholic Church, therefore, that strange mingling of mystery and common-sense, that union of earth and heaven, of clay and fire, can alone be understood by him who accepts her as both Divine and Human,

Surely then, if the blood of men and the tears of women could not avail to move the Judge and Observer of all from His silence, surely at least here the bloodless Death of His only Son, that once on Calvary had darkened heaven and rent the earth, pleaded now with such sorrowful splendour upon this island of faith amid a sea of laughter and hatred—this at least must avail! How could it not?

sin is the rebellion of man's will against God's.

it is the moral state, rather than the intellectual, to which the Spirit of God speaks with the greater certitude.

The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.

It is possible to find within the limits of a stone's throw one Anglican divine who preaches practically the entire cycle of Catholic doctrine with the exception of that bearing upon the prerogative of Peter; another who denies in scarcely veiled language the Corporal Resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as His birth of a Virgin; another whose utterances are so calculated and obscure as to defy reasonable analysis.

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

The smallest duty, if Christ assigns it and we accomplish it, is grander in God's eyes than building the pyramids or acquiring a vast domain.

We were each born on just the right day on His calendar, and we will finish our earthly tasks at just the right moment in His will.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. – Revelation 21:18

He has given us his very great and precious promises. – 2 Peter 1:4 NIV

It teaches us the power of patience regarding life events. We must trust His timing and our hearts must give Him time to align the circumstances for our good. Why are so many of my prayer requests not immediately answered? Perhaps God is patiently waiting until all the circumstances are correctly aligned for the widest possible fulfillment of those requests or aspirations. The same keen, impeccable sense of divine timing that sent Jesus into the world at the optimum

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. – Ephesians 2:8

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. – James 1:17

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. – Revelation 21:23