Quotes About Divine

You understand the fundamental principle of an icon, don't you? "Inspired by God" "Not made by hands" "Supposedly directly imprinted upon the background material by God Himself" All Icons fundamentally were the work of God. A revelation in material form. And sometimes new icon could be made from another simply by pressing a new cloth to the original and a magic transfer would occur.

God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we've never dreamed. Let's trust that that is what is happening here for each of us.

St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœGod triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.

that we are the sum of all we've seen and all we've appreciated and understood. You were the sum of sunshine on marble floors filled with pictures of divine beings who laughed and loved and drank the fruit of the vine as surely as you were the sum of the poets and historians and philosophers you'd read.

In your love for one another, I heard the echo of Heaven.

In fact, she had the neuter-gender quality of an angel.

He can see us, said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.

Maybe by some sublime miracle it is alive, Death, and it takes us into its arms, and it is no vampire, this thing, it is the very personification of the heavens. And we rise up and up into the stars with it. We go past the angels and the saints, past illumination itself and into the divine darkness, into the void, as we pass out of existence. In oblivion we are forgiven all things.

Be it further understood that all mortals who would receive the Dark Gifts should be beautiful in person so that the insult to God might be greater when the Dark Trick is done. Three

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Holy God, we praise thy Name Lord of All, we bow before thee!

I am a wise God and a patient God," He said. "I am the One who made you." The images vanished.

Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.

In the beginning were the spirits.

All that is magical and divine in me is bounded by the human and always was.

He might have been made by God to he painted by Andrea del Santo, so delicately perfect did be seen.

The will of a single god can be felt by all but those who are lost in delusion.

There isn't a soul in the world whom Heaven doesn't regard in particular fashion. There isn't a sigh or a word that Heaven fails to hear." I

Not made by human hands, you see, but by the power invested in me, which passed through me and I had only to take up the brush and there the Virgin and the Saints were mine to discover.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room into the sunny street), and in the next second I already knew for sure that God exists and that God is the Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, and not some other God. I call this moment the greatest miracle because this precise knowledge came to me not through reason (I know this for sure) but by some other way, and I am unable to explain this moment rationally ....

she and Wotan are also both sister and brother, and wife and husband.