Quotes About Divine

America's role appears to come to an abrupt end before the final years of the end times. Surprising as it may seem to some, the Author of the Word has provided to us a great deal of detail about the United States of America in the end times. Frankly, that's what we would expect from the Creator of the Universe. Daniel described God, as "the revealer of mysteries" and "a God in heaven who reveals mysteries" (Daniel 2:28 and 29).

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

Whoever believes, fears. Whoever fears is humble. Whoever is humble becomes gentle. Whoever is gentle pacifies the unruly forces of desire and aggression and begins to keep the commandments. Whoever keeps the commandments is purified. Whoever is purified is illuminated. Whoever is illuminated is made a spouse of the divine Logos-Bridegroom and shares with him the bridal chamber of mysteries. —Maximos the Confessor

Awakening is a momentary flash of insight when we are granted a glimpse of the universe as God sees it.

As Julian of Norwich put it, "And thus I saw God, and sought God. I had God, and at the same time I wanted God. And this is, and should be, what we are all working towards."1

There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig," Paula said. "We are one day going to run afoul of him and he will raise a great storm to punish us.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.

Word of God" or to treat the words of the Bible as if they were words spoken by the mouth of God is to me not just irresponsible, it is also to be illiterate.

In Yom Kippur, the status of being unclean fades before the divine presence. Yet if one cannot distinguish between God and Satan, if one calls evil good, if one's religion places limits on the love of God, if one claims that being God's chosen means that all others are God's rejected, then there can be no atonement, and Yom Kippur is a failure.

the "gift of interpretation" is considered on a par with the "gift of tongues," and indeed is thought of as the companion gift that must be sought along with tongues. An "interpretation" purports to give the content of the message just delivered in an unknown tongue, differing from a translation in that the interpreter no more understands the tongue than the speaker does.

Another use of tongues suggested in the Bible is to let us pray even when with our own minds we have no idea what to ask for in a given situation (see Romans 8:26-27).

The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

We cannot, therefore, in aspiring to a divine life, overlook the dignity of deed, to make an idol of thought.

Having no beginning and no end, circles represent the infinite, ergo the divine. Giotto and the pope knew such things by heart.

Shrewdly and deliberately, Julius orchestrated every aspect of his building campaigns, tomb project, paintings, and ceremonial pageantry to convey the message that he was born to be-and had rightly assumed his God-given role as-his Christian Caesar.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Gas chamber, gallows. Electric chair, stake, firing squad. Hang by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, and may God recycle your soul.

My people say Gaea likes a good story, and she likes great heroes. Are you a hero?

We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection