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Quotes About Divine

We do not see God as he is in himself. We behold him in his works. We name him according to the manner in which he has revealed himself in his works. To see God face to face is for us impossible, at least here on earth. If, nevertheless, God wills that we should know him, he must needs descend to the level of the creature. He must needs accommodate himself to our limited, finite, human consciousness.
~ Herman Bavinck
The doctrine of the divine authority of Holy Scripture constitutes an important component in the words of God that Jesus preached, and if he was mistaken on this point he was wrong at a point that is most closely tied in with the religious life and he can no longer be recognized as our highest prophet. We cannot take Jesus seriously as a teacher and reject his own teaching concerning Holy Scripture.
~ Herman Bavinck
Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.
~ Herman Bavinck
revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way other than that usually employed.
~ Herman Bavinck
If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.
~ Herman Cain
Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.
~ Unknown
God bless Captain Vere!
~ Herman Melville
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
~ Hermann Hesse
Where the Word of God, the Gospel, is, there it demands to be preached; so there must be a ministry. Where the Gospel is, there people must come together for divine service in order to hear it. Where the Word is, there the cross must also be; otherwise how could the word of the cross be taken seriously? Where the Word and the sacraments are, there are God's holy people.
~ Unknown
Man is the most divine of all the beings, for amongst all living things, Atum associates with him only - speaking to him in dreams at night, foretelling the future for him in the flight of birds, the bowels of beasts, and the whispering oak.
~ Unknown
74. The Earth is brutish; the Heaven is reasonable or rational.
~ Unknown
72. Things upon Earth, do not advantage those in Heaven; but all things in Heaven do profit and advantage all things upon Earth.
~ Unknown
55. Nothing in Heaven is enslaved; nothing upon Earth is free.
~ Unknown
Entre las cosas admirables, sobrepasa a todas las demás el que el hombre haya llegado a conocer y a crear la naturaleza divina.
~ Unknown
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
~ Herodotus
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
~ Herodotus
For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
~ Herodotus
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
~ Herodotus
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
~ Herodotus
No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful
~ Hilary Mantel
He would have thought God could make his own decisions, but Weston believes the creator may be pushed and coaxed and maybe bribed a little.
~ Hilary Mantel
by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
~ Hilary Mantel
And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
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~ Unknown