Quotes About Divine

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.