Quotes About Divine

For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him.

things may be very different from what we have been taught, or what we may of ourselves desire; but every difference will be the step of an ascending stair—each nearer and nearer to the divine perfection which alone can satisfy the children of a God, alone supply the poorest of their cravings.

Had God forgotten him? That could not be! that which could forget could not be God.

He cannot find him! Yet is he in his presence all the time, and his words enter into the ear of God his Saviour.

Ourselves our centre instead of God, is the source of all wrong and all misery.

Human science cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science.

Every gift of God is but a harbinger of his greatest and only sufficing gift—that of himself.

You must be strong with my strength and blessed with my blessedness, for I have no other to give you.-George MacDonald (what God says of us)

The truth is this: He wants to make us in his own image, choosing the good, refusing the evil. How should he effect this if he were always moving us from within, as he does at divine intervals, towards the beauty of holiness? God gives us room to be; does not oppress us with his will; "stands away from us," that we may act from ourselves, that we may exercise the pure will for good.

It would be a queer sort of god. Among other things it would be bisexual. The top half would be a managing director and the bottom half would be a wife in the family way.

For mystery hath lordship here, and ye Seem spirit-flowers born to startle man With intimations of eternity And hint of what the flowers of Heaven may be.

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

Pray as if it all depends upon God, for it does. But work as if it all depends upon us, for it does.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

on the question if he thought The Holy Ghost wrote the bible): I think The Holy Ghost has written all books.

God darkens our awareness in order to keep us safe. When we cannot chart our own course, we become vulnerable to God's protection, and the darkness becomes a "guiding night," a "night more kindly than the dawn."5

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

God has blessed me on a lot of levels. Have I worked for it? Absolutely. But it still takes that blessing.

I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

I am wearing Santo Loquasto's beautiful costumes. I get to stand on stage at 71 years old wearing the most darling dance boots. I am working with my dresser, who is the best dresser on Broadway; he's traveling with me. It's divine. It doesn't get better than this.