Quotes About Divine

Faith is a mystery and an experience of the divine in the world, not a solution to a set of problems.

The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved -- in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved -- in virtue of what God can do.

When the angels praise God in Heaven I am sure they play Bach.

In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.

Esto parece haber dado a entender la divina escriptura en los proverbios de Salomón: Rex, qui sedet in solio judicii, dissipat omne malum in tuitu suo [El Rey que está sentado en el solio del juicio disipa todo mal con su mirada]. Porque

Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

The ancient poet Philostratus said, "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself

Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.

Sometimes, when God blessed me with something, I would feel guilty. Then I realized this was wrong, because a blessing is a blessing is a blessing.

I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

God do everything for a reason.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

I don't force things. I can have a wish, and then I let God lead me on the path, bringing me what I need - and always trying to be alert to receive it.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.