Quotes About Divine

God will always make a way for His tired, yet trusting, children

We pray for the bifocals of faith—that see the despair and the need of the hour but also see, further on, the patience of our God working out his plan in the world he has made.

When God fixes our position for us, we may rest assured that it is a wise and salutary one; and even when we foolishly and willfully choose a position for ourselves, He most graciously overrules our folly, and causes the influences of our self-chosen circumstances to work for our spiritual benefit." Trust

There was nothing meek about her. She supposed that God loved her, but in a personal way; she took it for granted that He admired her.

At that moment I saw my duty. 'I will assist.' I exclaimed, 'this good divine in his struggle to uphold those domestic virtues without which the arts decay, religions decline, and nations disappear.

The Christian denomination in which I grew up was founded on the proposition that slavery could flourish alongside the gospel of Jesus Christ. Its founders believed that this arrangement was not just possible, but divinely mandated.

The unsettling truth is that, for nearly all of American history, the Jesus conjured by most white congregations was not merely indifferent to the status quo of racial inequality; he demanded its defense and preservation as part of the natural, divinely ordained order of things.

Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection by human power rather than divine spirit always produces a monstrosity. If

Spiritual asphyxia menaces he who does not practice some form of prayer; he who practices it receives vivifying benediction in some form.

What it all comes down to, as it so often does, is the very beginning of the universe. This, say the big-heads of the scientific fraternity, all began with a big bang. Wrong! The universe, in fact, began with the sound of a duck call, followed by a whistle and an enormous cosmic wind-break. Had anyone been around at the time to overhear these sounds, they would probably have received a pretty good indication of what God had up his sleeve, amongst other places.

He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.

even if everything that happens to me isn't good, God can still bring good out of everything.

God will always give you more than you can bear alone, because He doesn't want you to bear it without Him.

God smiles on my ignorance.

Because it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.'" (1 PET. 1:16)

When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you.

Why do you think the Divine is fair? In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is balanced with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run, and matters are often unjust there. The compensating forces of the universe make all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

Heaven: it's better than a chocolate bar.

It irked St Augustine (CG, 6, 4, 1-2) that Varro put human affairs before divine ones, for - the Latin antiquary explained - cities had existed before religious institutions, 'as the artist exists before the picture and the architect before the building'. Such an attitude was typical of a Roman, for whom religion was not a matter of personal devotion, but concerned a collective interest.

Followers of Jupiter Heliopolitanus had to meet in a sanctuary in the Trastevere district where water had a role to play, as in the temples of Atargatis which were complemented by a pool containing sacred fish. This Syrian goddess was part of a triad worshipped in Baalbek, with a divine son likened to Mercury:

Even at night, while he slept, the flamen Dialis was supposed to be attending to his divine service, for a receptacle containing sacred cakes was at the foot of his bed (Gell., 10, 15, 14).

Aesculapius, the god of health, whose favour was just as opportune on the first day of January.

The Romans certainly asked their gods to look favourably upon them, but above all to reassure them in their plans and back them in their actions.

There's no way a human heart can contain the Master's love. It always spills out.