Quotes About Divine

Piece by piece, each fit perfectly until the puzzle was complete. It could not have happened without the help of an unseen power.

God can use the jawbone of an ass!

But once ignited the power and the grace of the Holy Spirit was like a bush fire.

all that is in the past, and the past belongs to God.

Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat—88

A przecie? serce mi biÅ'o. I ziaÅ' boskoÅ›ciÄ… bÄ™dÄ…c czymÅ› przepysznie urzekajÄ…cym i ujmujÄ…cym w pustce bezmiernej tej nocy, ?ródÅ'em ciepÅ'a i Å›wiatÅ'a oddychajÄ…cego. ?aska. Cud niepojÄ™ty: dlaczego niewa?no?? ta stalÄ… siÄ™ wa?na? Fryderyk? Czy Fryderyk to wiedziaÅ', czy widziaÅ', czy jemu tak?e to wpadÅ'o w oko?...

Gott schläft, und wir leben weiter.

Entonces Parsifal le contestó: «Si la caballería, con escudo y lanza, puede conseguir la recompensa en la tierra y el paraíso para el alma, seré siempre caballero.» En verdad tu nombre es Parsifal que significa: corta por la mitad.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.

In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a lot better.

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.

Justo castigo -¡Dios mío, las cosas que me pasan!

You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, ... He would have pointed to you and said, Y'know, I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these.

When man has a virtuous thought,     Heaven will grant him support.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Doubtless we owe it to a divine dispensation that our land is veined with silver; if we consider how many neighbouring states lie round us by land and sea and yet into none of them does a single thinnest vein of silver penetrate.

for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

If you take two steps towards God," he used to tell me, "God runs to you!

The difference between God and the rational animal is far greater than that between man and the insect world, and it is inconceivable that the human intelligence can understand the process of divine revelation, even though he is the recipient of it.

Nowhere is this idea of divine revelation so strongly expressed or so clearly identified with the tradition of culture as in the case of Israel. For here the whole social form and historical destiny of the people had been imposed on them by the Word of Yahveh, which was not merely, as in other cases, a sacred tradition of learning, but a way of life embodied in a moral law and a sacred history which set it apart from all the other peoples of the ancient world.

The unity of the new Christian community was essentially a supernatural unity (...). This union was realized above all in the sacraments which were the channels for the transmission of the life of the Spirit and the means by which the faithful were incorporated into the divine organism or mystical body of which Christ is the head.

Human nature always retains its spiritual character - its bond with the transcendent and the divine. If it were to lose this, it must lose itself and become the servant of lower powers, so that secular civilization, as Nietzsche saw, inevitably leads to nihilism and to self-destruction.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.