Quotes About Divine

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also.

For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.

It was a lovely church - one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous party.

It was too much... the gods would not permit such joy.

For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

I know I have a left foot that was probably gifted to me by God, or someone up there, and I can always rely on it.

The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.

For Christians, Advent reminds us why we need Christmas in the first place. It relies not only the grace of God but also the assent of Mary to the divine will.