Quotes About Divine

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The

whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds. Since

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a   mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the   Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy."   (Psalm 33:16-18)

On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.

The characteristic of a true sovereign is, to acknowledge that, in the administration of his kingdom, he is a minister of God. He who does not make his reign subservient to the divine glory, acts not the part of a king, but a robber.

The true knowledge of God is not only to know him as the maker of the world, but also to be persuaded that the world is directed by him, and further to know the nature of that direction. He

Once we've concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly stoop to consider this life's miserable condition. And by such consideration we disentangle ourselves from excessive desire for this life, which— as has been said—is our natural inclination.

the Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.

the glory of God   is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

God sometimes bestows his bounty more   profusely, and, at other times, more sparingly, upon his children,   according as he sees it to be most for their good;

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.

And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and

For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.

Shall we, indeed, distinguish between right and wrong by that judgment which has been imparted to us, yet will there be no judge in heaven?

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

Because of the great distance between us and his heavenly glory, he himself came down to us through the Word. This