Quotes About Divine

We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.

His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.

God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men

God loves us more than we love Him.

God said it, that settles it.

Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!

it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace.

City of God interprets all of the human story, from Creation to the Last Judgment, as the drama of divine providence and human free choice, especially the choice between the two most fundamental options of membership in one or the other of the two cities. The City of God is the invisible community of all who love God; the City of the World is all those who love the world and themselves as their God.

Kamo god da ideš, s tobom ide i tvoj an?eo ?uvar. Prije nego što se spremaš nekamo i?i, razmisli je li to mjesto prikladno za jednoga an?ela.

Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle

Sacraments are that literal, that physical. Salvation is very physical. If the woman with the hemorrhage had touched the hem of St. Peter's garment instead of Christ's, her faith alone would not have healed her until it was joined to His body by her touch.—Unless God had willed to heal her that way, of course. God can work outside his sacraments, and often does. There

Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In

Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered.

the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is moral today.

sacramentally present at Mass—this Church is either God 's own or it is the devil's own.