Quotes About Divine

Remember, God didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now,' he said, 'Let there be light.' His first act was to allow light in to what had been Nothing. Like God, you also have to always work with the light, make it do only what you want it to do.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.' 'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.

call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound," Bach replied. "'In the Beginning was the Word,' you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.

The sea: God's bathtub, God's bath toys.

Jesus is the messianic craftsman whom Zechariah spoke about.

you have often said, it is not about religion; it is about a relationship with God.

When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

It is a heartache, honestly, to be so shunned. I have never understood why a creator god would go to so much trouble to separate one thing from another—the light from the darkness, waters that were under the firmament from waters that were above, the seas from the dry land, and worst of all, humankind from the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air and every creeping thing.

Faith is more than a matter of heart alone. The unique position of Transfiguration Sunday and its beautiful theophanies declares that the mountain is never the end of the journey. God does not gather us together just for a divine fireworks display, God always has something to say, usually something to ask. BRIAN ERICKSON

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.

Peter and I now refer to this concept as "God's GPS system," and when someone lets us down, we wait with anticipation to see how God is going to readjust our course. It can be a lot of fun to see what amazing journey he will send you on!

Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.

Heaven is light to me, light-hearted, and full of holy laughter.

I believe that where local congregational life is concerned, it is best to give the Holy Spirit all the room we can, because the Spirit has a way of reminding us that what we think is right—even what we think the Bible spells out as right—is not necessarily letter-perfect in the sight of God. If God did not choose to work in ways that confound us, grace would not be amazing. It would not be grace.

I do not know Whether I spoke or heard The word That fills all silence.

He is beyond our reach. We must give him to the Lord and pray the Lord gives him back to us again.

Yet human love, such as that of my husband, can certainly be a conduit for divine love, even for those who do not recognize love's true source. If it is the love of God that we see in the face of Christ Jesus that is promised to pull us through, a love that bears it out to the edge of doom even for the ugly and unlovable such as we are, then the statement that love heals depression is in fact the only light that shines in the dark tunnel.

En el lenguaje humano, la sanidad de Pablo fue un milagro, pero la palabra milagro no se se encuentra en el vocabulario de Dios, porque todas estas sanidades son parte de Su misma Naturaleza.

letter. That's exactly what I am in God's hand—a little pencil. God is writing his love letter to the world in this way, through works of love.

God has his own ways and means to work in the hearts of men and we do not know how close they are to him, but by their actions we will always know whether they are at his disposal or not.

I don't know why I'm always surprised when God does these things. He is so lavish in His love; it takes my breath away. It really does. Just when we think something has ended, He always shows us a new beginning.

I think sometimes that God's favorite word is surprise!