Quotes About Divine

God will take us where we have not planned to go in order to produce in us what we could not achieve on our own.

What God has begun in you, he will complete. Your destiny has already been decided. The One who decided it will give you all you need to get there.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

And then I realized it was what the Arabs call inshallah: "It is not mine to do; it's mine to do the best I can; it's going to happen according to God's

God's will.

Winners are the favourites of heaven.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.

since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special, personal, particular, unique, direct, one-on-one, hands-on relationship with reality, with the universe, with the Divine. It might be complicated, it might be a pain in the ass, it might be, most of all, lonely—but it was the bottom line.

Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.

If God didn't prefer for us to drink at night, he wouldn't have made neon!

Life still begins in the womb, cocky erections still collapse and lie useless when woman's superior sexuality is finished with them, but men control the divine channels now, and while that control may be largely an illusion, their laws, institutions, and elaborate weaponry exist primarily to maintain it.

The accumulation of material things is shallow and vain, but to have a genuine relationship with such things is to have a relationship with life and, by extension, a relationship with the divine.

God says, the check's in the mail.

God says the check is in the mail

can't build the church with any great idea, plan or management. The church is built by Someone else.

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.

God doesn't hide Himself from you so that He can't be found; He hides Himself from you so that He can be found.

Não importa o que você precise ou o que falte em sua vida - o que você realmente precisa é de Deus.

Não devemos concorrer com o mundo nas áreas em que ele é muito competente, ou até melhor que nós. Mas existe algo com que o mundo não é capaz de competir: a presença de Deus.

Love is divine only and difficult always.