Quotes About Divine

Good assessment is built on what I refer to as the 3Ds. The first D stands for design or divine design. The second D is for direction or divine direction, and the third for development. I believe this is the proper order and approach to determine what God would have us do in terms of ministry.

First, the potential church planter must discover his divine design,

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.

God created him first with two faces, and separated them" (1:27).

Jehovah will smite Egypt, and by smiting heal: they will turn back to Jehovah, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them." (Isaiah 19:22.)

Dievas buvo toks mielaširdingas, jog padar? Mirt? nematom? žmogaus akims. Mes žinom, kad ji ?ia pat, seka ?kandin m?s? kaip šeš?lis ir niekuomet nuo m?s? nesitraukia, Ir vis d?lto jos nematom ir veik visai apie j? užmirštam. O keis?iausia tai, kad juo labiau art?jam prie kapo, juo mažiau galvojam apie Mirt?. Iš tikr?j? tik Dievas gal?jo padaryti tok? stebukl?!

A key problem for Islam today can be summarized in three simplifying sentences: Christians worship a man made divine. Jews worship a book. And Muslims worship both.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

As a beam of sunlight sent through a room will at once reveal numberless motes floating in the air of the room, so a ray of Divine love let into the heart will immediately make visible to us a cloud of imperfections of which we were before entirely unaware.

Anger is death, Lust is (the river of hell) Vaitarani, Knowledge is the cow of plenty and Satisfaction is (the divine orchard) Nandanvan.

Overstretching occurs when one loses contact with one's center, with the divine core. Instead, the ego wants simply to stretch further, to reach the floor, regardless of its ability, rather than extending gradually from the center. Each movement must be an art. It is an art in which the Self is the only spectator.

Hindus often say the GOD is Generator, Organizer, and Destroyer. Inhalation is the generating power, retention is the organizing power, and exhalation, if the energy is vicious, is the destroyer. This is prana at work. Vigor, power, vitality, life, and spirit are all forms of prana.

If you say you are your body, you are wrong. If you say you are not your body, you are also wrong. The truth is that although body is born, lives, and dies, you cannot catch a glimpse of the divine except through the body.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

The example of God, teacheth the lesson truly.

For the retiring of the mind within itself is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency and elevation (which the ancients noted by fury), and not with a repose and quiet, as it is in the other.

God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.