Quotes About Divine

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.

Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.

God at his best (and he always is)does not have favorite children

Our lives are lived well only when they are lived on the terms of their creation, with God loving and us being loved, with God making and us being made, with God revealing and us understanding, with God commanding and us responding.

Evil is always temporary. "The worst does not last."2 Nothing counter to God's justice has any eternity to it.

Under the image of the Trinity we discover that we do not know God by defining him but by being loved by him and loving in return.

GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.

The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.

Theologian Karl Rahner was once asked if he believed in miracles. His reply? 'I live on miracles—I couldn't make it through a day without them.' Still another name for it is mystery.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable.

The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.

God uses language to create and command us.

The premise of the psalm for all work is that God works: "If GOD doesn't build the house . . . If GOD doesn't guard the city . . ." The condition if presupposes that God does work: he builds; he guards.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin . . . . [And so] think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth.

This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine graciousness in ordinary life rather than in the hymns of church fathers or in the dry elaborations of theologians.

Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God...Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.