Quotes About Divine

The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.

Jesus is the prototype man for men. All of us men are only as manly as it relates to the standard set by Jesus. Romans 8:29 helps us to understand this point: "For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers." God's design—His divine intent—is for those who are in Jesus to look like Jesus.

We have the tendency to trace the good in our lives back to ourselves. But in the end, we find that it is all a work of God.

If we remove the idea of a supernatural God who is free to act in miraculous ways, we fall into the slough of despond inhabited by the scientistic naturalists. We essentially remove God himself from the Bible.

If someone believes it is our faith that heals us and forgets that it is God who does it, we should ask that person how much faith Lazarus had. Remember, he was decomposing in a tomb when Jesus raised him from death. His faith obviously didn't matter. It was all God. It is God and God's grace that heals, not our prayers and not our "faith." Though we are exhorted by God to pray to him, we cannot compel him to do what we wish. DO

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God. In

a person's strength comes solely from being united with the will of God. You

Behold, the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, what it accomplishes while we are silent, suffer, and pray. Is not the word of Moses true: "You will be silent and the Lord will fight for you"?

God wants more than anything to let us know he is with us. He sees what we are going through and he cares. Furthermore, he is such a big God that he can afford to deal with us on an intimate level, to encourage us and to wink at us and to hold our hands when we need him to do that.

It's only logical that if God always answered our prayers as we wanted him to, those answers to our prayers could hardly be considered miraculous. They would only be part of a predictable system that we could manipulate, if only we knew how. It really makes God not God, but a "God" or a god whom we are ultimately able to control through our efforts, whether via prayer or via our "moral" actions designed to elicit a favorable response.

He said] when you read the Bible17, you must think that here and now God is speaking with me.

that with God, all things are possible.

And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to enquire of him.

God is free not from human beings but for them.

if it be a work of grace, it cannot fail.

Every once in a great while, the hand of God is easy to see, and for a brief moment, fairy tales and history are the same thing. This story is about one of those times.

May God make his Word find a hearing in all the world.

for Luther the Bible was not a book like Aristotle's Ethics or like a volume of Livy or Cicero. It was something entirely apart from every book in the world. It was the living Word of God and therefore could not be read like any other book. It was inspired by God, and when one read it, one must do so in such a way—with such closeness and intimacy—that one fully intended to feel and smell the breezes of heaven.

But since logic dictates that God could have saved the Israelites from Pharaoh's army in an infinity of ways, and in ways infinitely subtler than parting the Red Sea, it is obvious that he didn't part the Red Sea to save the Israelites as much as he parted the Red Sea to communicate himself to the Israelites.

At the threshold of the divine, how to know But indirectly, to hear the static as Pattern, to hear the rough-edged white noise as song— Wait, not as song—but to intuit the songbird, Within the thorn thicket, safe, hidden there. Every moment is not a time for song or singing. — Eric Pankey, from "Ash," Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

A las religiones espirituales que encuentran su ens realissimum en la causa u origen del mundo [Weltgrund], las denominaremos religiones supramundanas. En cambio, a aquellas otras que descubren lo divino en contenidos que son parte del propio mundo, las denominaremos religiones intramundanas.

La simbología intramundana perfecta viene ahora a cercenar el vínculo con Dios, apareciendo en su lugar la propia comunidad, como fuente de legitimación de la personalidad colectiva

to the end And was there from eternity. GOETHE, Westöstlicher Diwan