Quotes About Divine

That was really it, her message as a nun and a child of God: listen deeply to your heart. That was how and where God communicated with people. Not so much in burning bushes or on mountaintops, in blue grottos or apparitions of the Virgin Mary, but more often in the depths of their own hearts.

The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

The world looks like something that God imagined for his own pleasure.

Perhaps some realization came to her that, after all, it was better to have, like Anne, the vision and the faculty divine, that gift which the world cannot bestow or take away, of looking at life through some transfiguring, or revealing, medium, whereby everything seemed appareled in celestial light, wearing a glory and a freshness not visible to those who, like herself and Charlotta the IV, looked at things only through prose.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15 train ~ Keynes

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Conscience is the voice of God.

There are, indeed, things that are inexpressible. They show themselves. They are what is mystical.

There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.

I find attempts to create bilingual gospels laughable, in particular the attempt to translate the service from Church Slavonic into Russian. What for? In order not to make the effort and not to learn the divine, if somewhat artificial but solemn, language specially carved for this purpose? This language also provides a link with a tradition which is realized at depths and which the modern Russian language cannot plumb.

The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.

And there is yet another joy, even greater. It is the joy of communion with God.

Aware of their intimate connectedness to God, they experience a surcease of loneliness. There is communion.

We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.

Deus, quando quer ser Dante, é maior que Dante.

Santa curiosidade! Tu não és só a alma da civilização, és também o pomo da concórdia, fruta divina, de outro sabor que não aquele pomo da mitologia.

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.

Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.