Quotes About Divine

Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.

Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.