Quotes About Divine

At its purest, Jainism is almost an atheistic religion, and the much venerated images of the Tirthankaras in temples represent not so much a divine presence as a profound divine absence. I

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

Fall to the work God sets thee about, and thou engagest his strength for thee. The way of the Lord is strength. Run from thy work, and thou engagest God's strength against thee; he will send some storm or other after thee to bring home his runaway servant. How oft hath the coward been killed in a ditch, or under some hedge, when the valiant soldier stood his ground and kept his place got off with safety and honor?

Castle thyself within the power and promise of God for thy assistance and protection.

What is prayer but the breathing forth of that grace which is breathed into the soul by the Holy Spirit?

We shall never come at God's glory out of God's way.

Here is the necessity of divine armour, to persevere till we have done all. Wherefore, else, bids he them take this armour for this end, if they could do it without?

Heaven is a city where righteousness dwells.

The dear love he beareth to his saints engageth his power. He that hath God's heart cannot want his arm.

Conscience is God's sergeant he employs to arrest the sinner.

Tranquillus Deus tranquillat omnia—a tranquil God tranquilizes all things.

Thus long did God forbear to commit his will to writing, because it, passing through so few, and those trusty hands, it might safely be preserved.

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul.

So that now all those ways whereby God directly made known his mind to this people, are resolved into this one of the Scriptures, which we are to receive as the undoubted word of God, containing in a perfect rule of faith and life, and to expect no other revelation of his mind to us.

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul. That day thou wert born again, an heir to heaven was born.

The word of God hath the power of conversion, which none but God—who is the 'God of all grace'—can produce.

He makes the heart new, and having made it fit for heavenly motion, setting every wheel, as it were, in its right place, then he winds it up by his actuating grace, and sets it on going, the thoughts to stir, the will to move and make towards the holy object presented; yet here the chariot is set, and cannot ascend the hill of action till God puts his shoulder to the wheel: 'to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not,' Rom. 7:18.

They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and therefore it is no wonder that a little child, under the preaching of the gospel, believes these mysteries which Plato and Aristotle were ignorant of, because they are not attained by our parts and industry, but communicated by divine and supernatural revelation.

We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.

Election indeed is first in order of divine acting, God chooseth before we believe; yet

The Spirit is the only true interpreter of the word. Hence that known passage of Bernard: quo spiritu factæ sunt Scripturæ, eo spiritu legi desi derant, ipso etiam intelligendæ sunt—the Scriptures must be read, and can be understood, by that Spirit alone by whom they were made.

The manifestations of God's love are to fit us for our work.

Every soul clad with this armour of God shall stand and persevere; or thus, true grace can never be vanquished.