Quotes About Divine

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

He said that everything in this world, small or large, was created for a reason. Even the smallest mosquito that bites people and makes them itch. There is wisdom behind that itch, in that it can be a substitute for a corresponding irritation in Hell. He said that every trouble we land in comes from a sin which would not be forgiven without that trouble.

No coração do puritanismo estava a crença de que a graça de Deus é a fonte de todo benefício humano e que não se pode adquiri-la por mérito humano.

If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.

No matter what heroic acts I might perform, without God's grace I never could save myself.

God, who is infinitely good, would not place in human hearts this desire for perfect happiness if there were no way in which that desire could be satisfied.

The Talmud expresses this lovely thought: "God found the Jews as one finds grapes in the desert.

Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it is healthy, looks up, not to the laws which it can unmake as it made them, but to the unwritten laws, the divine law, the gods of the city. The city must transcend itself. ...the most important consideration concerns that which transcends the city or which is higher than the city; it does not concern things which are simply subordinate to the city.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

Tuhan tahu, tapi menunggu .....

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).

Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us— although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.

Within the heart is an unfathomable depth. —The Macarian Homilies *Macarius of Egypt was a Coptic Christian monk and hermit.

A blank page is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

There was something life-giving about the sea, as if it were the pulse of God keeping the world alive.

O weary heart and hand,     Go bravely to the strife— No victory is half so grand     As that which conquers life! One day shall yet be thine—     The day that waits for all Whose prayerful eyes are things divine     When evening shadows fall.

The warm strength of Brother Rip's hand on hers was like nothing she had ever felt—as if he had a divine touch.

When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

Lord would provide, as he had all along

The pastor boomed out again: "My friends, who can say where it will end? Who can say when the Lord will at last be pleased with us?

Mama said that there was not going to be a bank robbery—the Lord wouldn't allow it. Frank didn't see why not, and Papa seemed to agree with him—he said, "Well, he's allowed plenty of 'em." Mama said that sometimes Satan got away with things and sometimes he didn't