Quotes About Divine

We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.

It is a sad reflection upon a society obsessed with sex that people are now desperate for intimacy and love. But then as John Stott has said, the capacity for relationships is part of the divine likeness in man, whereby we are "made to love. To love other people, and above all, to love God.

Thus all persons are capable of rational discourse, and as John Stott has pointed out, "one of the noblest features of the divine likeness in man is his capacity to think.

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

All that we require for growing in godliness, our God provides.

Long ago Augustine simply summarized, "When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

God's care precedes his commands.

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

The afflictions we experience do not evidence the absence of divine love, because God uses even this pain for higher purposes in our behalf. The proof is in the cross itself.

Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.

The glory of preaching is that God accomplishes his will through it, but we are always humbled and occasionally comforted by the knowledge that he works beyond our human limitations.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

You do indeed have great power and talents, but have faith in the One who gave them to you.

We cannot predict how God will work, only that he will succeed.

My prayers go up; Your love comes down; You make me smile On days I frown. Our Father above Sends us baskets of love, The blessings from his heart.

He lets His children step out in faith, even though they don't always know exactly what they're doing, and He makes their choices work.

If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to make it burst forth from its prison walls, will he leave neglected in the earth the soul of man, made in the image of his Creator?

Man is a religious being; the heart instinctively seeks for a God. Whether he worships on the banks of the Ganges, prays with his face upturned to the sun, kneels toward Mecca or, regarding all space as a temple, communes with the Heavenly Father according to the Christian creed, man is essentially devout.

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.

That worship which is directed by divine precept is performed without the desire of reward.

A gentle joyousness-a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.