Quotes About Divine

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So

Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

It is the Spirit of God alone who opens the gate of heaven to the elect. Further

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

Wherefore, when we wander and go astray, we are justly shut out from every species of excuse, because all things point to the right path. But while man must bear the guilt of corrupting the seed of divine knowledge so wondrously deposited in his mind, and preventing it from bearing good and genuine fruit, it is still most true that we are not sufficiently instructed by that bare and simple, but magnificent testimony which the creatures bear to the glory of their Creator. For

Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more, God demands of us faith itself, and finds not what he thus demands, until by giving he makes it possible to find it.

unless God   feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will   be of no avail. Though

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.

the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When

the anger   of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it   compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.

those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal. Moreover

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.

Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

But we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election of God.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee. .

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it. But

Even the wicked themselves, therefore, are an example of the fact that some idea of God always exists in every human mind.

Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God. .