Quotes About Divine

Der Vorgriff auf das himmlische Jerusalem, wo Gott mit seinen Engeln thronte, sollte nichts Burgenhaftes mehr haben. In Burgen hauste nur der Teufel.

Der Herr bewahre uns vor deiner hüllenlosen Ungestalt!

When they're older, maybe my grandchildren will embrace apophatic theology, the theology of not knowing. Maybe they will look for ways to make the irrational rational by hiding behind words like "mystery" in order to sustain their faith. Apophatic theology teaches that the divine is ineffable and recognized only when it's felt.

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others.

The triune God stands at the beginning and at the end of the Christian pilgrimage and, therefore, at the center of Christian faith.

The Lord has a unique way of preparing His servants for His work. It's one that involves transformation. And transformation always involves emptying, suffering, and loss. Humanity's way is to hand you a method. Divinity's way is to hand you a cross.

Note that there is a monumental difference between well-motivated humans working for God in their own strength, wisdom, and power versus God working through humans.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22

God's delay is not God's denial.

Aristotle's scala naturae, which runs from God, the angels, and humans at the top, downward to other mammals, birds, fish, insects, and mollusks at the bottom.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

At the peak of human gnosis, man's knowledge of God may appear associated with the love of God. An early Sufi is said to have re- marked that he loved God, because God had bestowed upon him, among other favors, his knowledge of Him.

The intellect itself was unable to state who God was, until God anointed its eyes with the light of divine uniqueness, for, as al-Kalâbâdhî developed this theme, the only guide to God and the knowledge of God is God Himself.

Jetzt kommt die Pointe aller Pointen, die mir der Herr im Schlaf verliehen hat.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Deep within each of us is a spark of the divine just waiting to be used to light up a dark space.

That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.

Changing your birth name is like divorcing your Self from Your Divine Plan.

Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.

C. S. Lewis wrote that we think at first God is going to turn us into a "decent little cottage," but as deep, wrenching changes continue to be made, we realize that he is building a palace. "He intends to come and live in it himself.

An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.