Quotes About Divine

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Saint Augustine. "'Love God and do what you like. For if with the spirit of wisdom a man loves God, then, always striving to fulfil the divine will, what he wishes should be the right thing.

If God is truly sovereign, and I believe He is, then whatever stage we are in in life is exactly where God has allowed us to be.

Sometimes our LORD comes with a miracle.... Sometimes He gives us the Grace to face the difficulties of life." p. 29

His grace to overlook my silliness in thinking that I knew what to do and bless me with what He knew was best anyway. He promised that His grace was sufficient, that His grace would be enough...

There is a purpose in everything that God allows. Second

If there is no God, there can be no magic

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

The sound of life has divine silence.

within the same person described ... we have not one or even two but at least three distinct entities. 1. The old sin nature-the root cause of all sin. 2. The new divine nature-which is unable to sin. 3. The believer-who chooses which of the other two will be in control.

In his commentary on Titus 1:12, for example, Calvin states: "All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.

To be poor in New York was humiliating, a little; but to be young—to be young was divine.

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

When a man was found dead at the well in 1630 after having made scoffing remarks about its supposed powers a local jury brought in a verdict of death by divine judgement.74

This year in sowing too early I lost (the Lord being the cause thereof, but that the instrument wherewith it pleased him to work)… the sum of £10 at least, so exceeding full was my barley with charlock, in all likelihood by means of that instrumental cause, the Lord my God… being without doubt the efficient cause thereof.12

Everything from quarks to quasars, butterflies to brain cells, was created so that you and I might delight in the display of divine glory. We alone can glorify God by rejoicing in the beauty His creative handiwork and relishing the splendor of His-revelation in the Person and redemptive work of Jesus Christ.

You might get Yahweh and burning bushes.

The resolution of good men depends more on the grace of God than on their own wisdom, and they put their whole trust in Him in all their undertakings. Man proposes, but God disposes, and man's destiny is not in his own hands.

Examine human handiwork under a microscope, and the closer you look, the more rough edges you find. It's inevitable. Our tools and manual abilities are limited. But look at God's handiwork under a microscope, and the deeper you go, the more organization and detail you find.

We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches us.

While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.