Quotes About Divine

It's never too early for tea," Andrew declared. "Not if your cook has been making shortbread." He turned to George. "I don't know what she puts in it, but it's divine." "Butter," Billie said absently. "Quite a lot of it." Andrew cocked his head to the side. "Well, that makes sense. Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter.

She wondered what it said about her spiritual fitness that her clearest messages from the Almighty seemed to come from the alternative rock station.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Do the gods choose what is good because it is good, or is the good good because the gods choose it? If the first option is true, then the good is independent of the gods. But if the second option is true, then the very idea of what is good becomes arbitrary.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness and his wish that it should be shown?

It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

Some of us believe that God is almighty, and can do everything; and that he is all wise, and may do everything; but that he is all love, and will do everything— there we draw back.

He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and to small, to low and to simple, to one and to other. And so meaneth He in that He saith: ALL MANNER OF THINGS shall be well. For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten.

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

Therefore this is His thirst and love-longing, to have us altogether whole in Him, to His bliss,—as

AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.

For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done;

For He that made man for the sake of love, would by the same love restore man to bliss, even greater than before.

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?

And then shall it verily be known to us His meaning in those sweet words where He saith: All shall be well: and thou shalt see, thyself, that all manner of things shall be well.

the soul of a rightful man is the seat of God;