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Quotes About Divine

Pastor Elmore roared out, " Ã¢â'¬ËœOn that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened!' And why was that, my friends? Why did the Lord see fit to destroy his own creation, like a sculptor who smashes his clay with his fist, or a painter who slashes his canvas? Why, because it wasn't right and good! And does the pot revile its creator for this? And does the painting weep? No!
~ Jane Smiley
The Lord is just about to that point he was with the Nephilim—sick and tired of the sin.
~ Jane Smiley
If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.
~ Janet Evanovich
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines. Holy
~ Janet Evanovich
The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
~ Janet Fitch
God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
~ Janet Fitch
God is like that, Virginia concluded. He's always on duty. Moving from one need to another. Always there- for everyone. He'll get us through this. He has a way.
~ Janette Oke
Only God knows the plan he has for you. We must continue to pray for his will to be done. He has promised to answer, and he keeps his promises. So answer he will—in his own time and way. Whatever your future holds, this I know. He will not desert you. Your duty, my dear, is to seek his will and to walk in his way.
~ Janette Oke
He answers my prayers." "Ya mean by givin' ya whatever ya ask fer?" Clark thought a minute, then shook his head. "No, not thet. Oft times He jest helps me to git by without what I asked fer.
~ Janette Oke
Thank you, Lord, I prayed, for turning something bad into something good.
~ Janette Oke
We never know," said her father, "when we pray for God's protection on our children to what great lengths He will need to go to fulfil our prayers.
~ Janette Oke
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
~ Edith Stein
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
~ Andrea Bocelli
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
~ Baha'u'llah
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
~ Anne Hutchinson
This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
~ George Santayana
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
~ John Jewel
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
~ David Josiah Brewer
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
~ Wayne Newton