Quotes About Divine

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center…Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is triumphant. It is radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time. And it makes our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. He is at the helm. And when our little day is done we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well.

Human beings do choose to believe, but they make that choice only because divine grace opens otherwise blind eyes to see the beauty of the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4:6).

Some pastors believe in divine sovereignty but do not think that the doctrine should be preached, since it is controversial. This is a tragic mistake, for it provides strength to the people of God and was revealed for our good.

So for Calvin, even as for Augustine, God does not really will that all be saved,

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God" William Barclay

How like an angel came I down!

Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.

Love studies not to be scanty in its measures, but how to abound and overflow with benefits. He that pinches and studieth to spare is a pitiful lover, unless it be for other's sakes Love studieth to be pleasing, magnificent and noble, and would in all things be glorious and divine unto its object. Its whole being is to its object, and its whole felicity in its object, and it hath no other thing to take care for. It doth good to its own soul while it doth good for another.

The world is indeed the beautiful frontispiece of eternity.

My mind s a center of divine operations

Spirit in the Infinite is the Creative Power of the universe,

the life and substance of all things must first subsist as images in the Divine Mind before they can come into manifestation in the world of time and space, much as in Plato's conception of archetypal ideas;

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.

God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.

If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.

This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union: