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Quotes About Divine

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
~ Thomas Paine
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
~ William Cowper
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
~ William Wordsworth
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
~ Henry Miller
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
~ Homer
Every man's life is a plan of God.
~ Horace Bushnell
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
~ Hosea Ballou
The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.
~ Hugh Nibley
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
~ John Milton
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
~ John Piper
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
~ John Tillotson
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
~ Juvenal
Man is programmed to find the programmer.
~ Kedar Joshi
God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.
~ Kedar Joshi
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?
~ Leonid Andreyev
There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
~ Ernest Renan
By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.
~ Fulgentius of Cartagena
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
~ Lord Byron