Quotes About Divine

Set aside days to spend alone with God to seek his face and to imagine that face shining with joy as it looks at you. As the ancient Jewish benediction puts it: The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you [look right at you] And give you peace. (NUM. 6:24–26)

heaven is here and God is here, because God and his spiritual agents act here and are constantly available here.

The spirit is able to consider alternatives, and God prompts us to have an interest in what is better and best.

we demean God by considering him a cosmic boss who orders humans around

God is great enough that he can conduct his affairs in this way. His nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate. And if he chooses to deal with humanity in such a way that he will occasionally think it appropriate, that is just fine.

God is not mean, but he is dangerous.

The right thing would be simply releasing it all and saying, "All right. God knows. I'm living in his world. He can give me what he wants. I will not put these things in the place of God.

Reign is no doubt wording that is a little too grand for the contemporary mind, though what it refers to is what everyone actually pursues in life. We have been trained to think of "reigning" as exclusionary of others. But in the heart of the divine conspiracy, it just means to be free and powerful in the creation and governance of what is good. In the life of prayer we are training for, we reign in harmonious union with the infinite power of God.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

We settle back into de facto alienation of our religion from Jesus as a friend and teacher, and from our moment-to-moment existence as a holy calling or appointment with God. Some will substitute ritual behavior for divine vitality and personal integrity; others may be content with an isolated string of "experiences" rather than transformation of character.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides—"as it is in the heavens.

Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.

Holy Scriptures

T]he translators were united in their commitment to the authority and infallibility of the bible as God's Word in written form.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Angels and Demons p. 484

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.

God's will is your deepest desires.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.