Quotes About Divine

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

The God who walks the paths of history through the pages of the Bible pins a mission statement to every signpost on the way.

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

Therefore, the universe, and everything in it, responds to thoughts because it is composed of the thoughts of the divine. If the divine created us and everything else as a thought, and we are capable of creating our own thoughts, then they, too, are divine and filled with power. The universe and everything in it will respond to our thoughts. Thoughts invested with energy become reality. This is magick.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

God's camera takes snapshots that don't fall into your hand like Polaroids do. They pop right into your head and stay there forever.

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

With Ruach Elohim dwelling within everyone who believes, anyone could become a powerful vessel through which God will work.' Danick smiled. 'I think Apollyon is terrified. Imagine a world of saints, all being transformed into the likeness of Christ. Apollyon thought he killed the one Christ the world had, and now the world is filling with Christlike saints.

Specifically, the Lord longs for us to succeed: by moving our lives forward; … by causing us to prevail over the enemy of our souls; … by causing us to act wisely and strategically; by promoting us to new levels at the right season; and by helping us to achieve our destined purpose when we cry out to Him along our paths. In essence, as God's children, He longs for us to succeed even as He succeeds!6

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

It's not our job to save souls. That's the Holy Spirit's job. If people come to faith, it's because the Holy Spirit regenerated them in their innermost being. He made them new creations in Christ.

Prophecy is not the study of things to come: prophecy is looking at God's total plan from beginning to end.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

So you can't look at church history to find the model for the church, just like you can't look at the history of mankind and find God's divine intention for man.

sometimes balk at Jesus' strange commands thinking, But if nothing happens I will look so stupid. Here is the heart of the matter: It is not about you. It is about the work of Jesus and the glory of God. His thoughts are always higher than ours and His work is always greater than what we ask or think.

The Scripture makes it clear that one of the Holy Spirit's primary tasks is to restrain evil until the time set by the Father.

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.