Quotes About Divine

Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.

God give us grace to have the true knowledge of God and of ourselves.

God is a just as He is merciful.

Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.

Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion

no human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.

Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere.

Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood

Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).

Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.

Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God.

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.

The great variety of moral qualities attributed to God by Scripture revolves particularly around two—holiness and love. These may be said in summary form to constitute the moral character of God

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine....

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)

Music is well said to be the speech of angels

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

In the seventeenth century, René Descartes opted for reason over a divine source of knowledge. This came to be known as putting Descartes before the source.