Quotes About Divine

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

The gods, if so minded, might mingle with men, so as to see and be seen, hear and be heard.

For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin.

The cause of things, therefore, which makes but is not made, is God; but all other causes both make and are made.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not.

For the steps of a man are ordered by the Lord, and He shall dispose his way.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having finished their courses, is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....

He no more wished to speak alone than He wished to exist alone, since He says: Behold, I am with you all days, unto the consummation of the world (Matt. 28:20). If He is with us, then He speaks in us, He speaks of us, and He speaks through us; and we too speak in Him.

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.

Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.

The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.

Its not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere

Trust God that you are where you are meant to be.