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Quotes About Divine

Thank God for every detail of your life and believe He has permitted all of these things in order to bring you to the place where you are now.
~ Merlin R. Carothers
When we trust Him, no power on earth can touch us unless it is God's will.
~ Merlin R. Carothers
Satan can't do a thing to us unless he first gets God's permission. Remember God allowed Satan to test Job. The only time God gives Satan permission is when God sees the tremendous potential in the thing passing through us and coming out as joy, pure joy!
~ Merlin R. Carothers
There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the Rig Veda, and the Popul Vuh, focused especially on the actions of gods and on human/divine interactions. The
~ Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
All awakening to love is spiritual awakening
~ bell hooks
When I speak of the spiritual, I refer to the recognition within everyone that there is a place of mystery in our lives where forces that are beyond human desire or will alter circumstances and/or guide and direct us. I call these forces divine spirit. When we choose to lead a spirit-filled life, we recognize and celebrate the presence of transcendent spirits.
~ bell hooks
Estrangement from our natural environment is the cultural contest wherein violence against the earth is accepted and normalized. If we do not see earth as a guide to divine spirit, then we cannot see that the human spirit is violated, diminshed when humans violate and destroy the natural environment.
~ bell hooks
The presence of angels, of angelic spirits, reminds us that there is a realm of mystery that cannot be explained by human intellect or will
~ bell hooks
This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.
~ Ben Carson
It's all in God's hands. That's where it's always been.
~ Ben Carson
Ben Carson: It's all in God's hands. Craig: But we believe you let God use your hands.
~ Ben Carson
Ben Carson: I guess God had something to do with this. Craig: I guess God had everything to do with it.
~ Ben Carson
Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.
~ Ben Lerner
However, I will say no more on this subject, for everything is guided and directed by the hand of God.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Wyrd bið ful aræd.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Fiat voluntas tua
~ Bernard Cornwell
You must have faith. Miracles make belief easy, which is why you should never pray for one. Much better to find God through faith than through miracles.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I had thought about Alban for a while. "Why," I had then asked, "if your god can pull out a man's eyes, didn't he just save Alban's life?" "Because God chose not to, of course!" Beocca had answered sniffily, which is just the kind of answer you always get when you ask a Christian priest to explain another inexplicable act of their god.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Madness has a purpose! It's a gift from the Gods, and like all their gifts it comes with a price
~ Bernard Cornwell
You're a Christian? Of course! You believe in miracles? I asked, and he nodded. Then you'd better fetch your five loaves and two fishes, I went on, and pray that your wretched god provides the rest.
~ Bernard Cornwell
So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.' 'Are you telling me He's not on our side?' 'I'm telling you that God is on the side of whoever wins, Hook.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It seemed an unassailable logic to me. What was the point of worshipping a god if he did not help you?
~ Bernard Cornwell
God's purposes are not always easy to understand, but I have found that his methods are not as indirect as ours. We complicate God because we do not see that goodness is so very simple.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Says so in the scriptures
~ Bernard Cornwell