Quotes About Divine

It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat.

We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

From what has been said, it is clear that a book is either inspired or not inspired whilst it is being written.

The system of those who limit divine inspiration to matters of faith and morals cannot be tolerated.

However, unless there is a divinely appointed guardian of the sacred text, there is no positive assurance that in the course of time it would not be badly corrupted even in very important matters.

The music, yearning like a God in pain.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

The man who stands with God is always in the majority.

What kind of world results if the power to dominate and control others, inflicting enormous suffering in the process, is sanctioned by a divine being who can at the same time redeem that suffering and release the perpetrators and their victims from that world's evils?

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular consciousness that, for better or for worse, placed the responsibility for what happens in history squarely on the people who live through history

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

flatter princes with an opinion, that they have a divine right to absolute power, let the laws by which they are constituted and are to govern, and the conditions under which they enter upon their authority, be what they will ; and their engagements to observe them ever so well ratified by solemn oaths and promises.

govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him.

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

Professor Ratzinger specifies that the philosophical view of God was reframed by its convergence with the biblical faith of Christianity in two ways: 1) It removed the idea that God must be totally and solely self-interested, and 2) it recognized that the divine is not limited to pure thought and thus can act in concrete ways.[cxvi]  This union between the Logos and love is another key feature of Ratzinger's theology.

Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.

For the influenza pandemic that erupted in 1918 was the first great collision between nature and modern science. It was the first great collision between a natural force and a society that included individuals who refused either to submit to that force or to simply call upon divine intervention to save themselves from it, individuals who instead were determined to confront this force directly, with a developing technology and with their minds.