Quotes About Divine

I've lived a charmed life. I've been very lucky. God has been very kind to me.

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.

In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those patterns of explanation are strictly human, the word has not lost a superhuman power to connect young and old, writer and reader; to connect us with each other and with the causes and consequences of what we do.

God has created in man the desire for Himself and has offered Himself as the object of man's desire. He is the only One sufficient to fill the God-shaped hole within man's soul.

Incidentally, that is why complaints against the weather are complaints against God Himself—He purposefully controls it just as it is happening. This is also why natural "disasters" are called "acts of God.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Sleep is God. Go worship.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

?adna noc nie jest tak ciemna ani ?adna sytuacja tak rozpaczliwa, ?eby boska interwencja nie mog?a pogorszy? tego stanu.

I am heaven.

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British pulpiteer, had said in a sermon almost exactly a hundred years before: The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.1

I'm not qualified," I protested. "Me, a minister? I have no idea how to be a pastor." He said, "When God calls someone, that's all that really matters. Don't let yourself be afraid.

Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

God is not dead; he really does communicate today. He's interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision - and more than just the moral issues. His eye is always on you. He wants to lead you. But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart to do his will.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

the Creator of all things is looking throughout the whole earth for a certain kind of heart.

God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.