Quotes About Divine

When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.

Beauty is God's handwriting.

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.

Real Self, True Self, Child Within, Inner Child, Divine Child, and Higher Self. (I capitalize the first letters to show its importance for us in living and to help differentiate it from the false or lower self.) It has also been called our Deepest Self, our Inner Core (James, Savary 1977). These terms refer to the same core part in us. One description: who we are when we feel most authentic, genuine or spirited.

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

If God has given you a talent, do not use it ungratefully.

Beyond the ephemeral and the dark stands "a sign from eternity, solemn and mighty, bathed in the radiance of the divine sun of grace and light—the cross. And there [God] hangs, his arms outstretched as if to embrace the entire world in love."42

Child, the Lord gives you what you need, when you need it.

Saint Augustine said it best: You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.

Colorado..... When God carved this place with His words, He lingered.

He tapped me gently in the chest. "And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt.

You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.

The prayer for the vengeance of God is the prayer for the execution of his righteousness in the judgment of sin.

As the open confession of my sins to a brother insures me against self-deception, so, too, the assurance of forgiveness becomes fully certain to me only when it is spoken by a brother in the name of God. Mutual, brotherly confession is given to us by God in order that we may be sure of divine forgiveness." —LIFE TOGETHER

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Just stop and ask yourself the question, "Now what is it that I possess? I possess Jesus as my intimate Friend, who lives on the inside of me and who promised that no matter what goes on in my life, He will never leave me". You can't beat that for a promise or for friendship. That is an awesome possession which no one else can give you and no one else can promise you that.