Quotes About Divine

We are not to worship the Bible; we are to worship the One the Bible reveals.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

I chose God over the material universe.

he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know.

It is only through the breakdown of his ordinary reality that he can be in-formed by the suprasensual reality of the divine letter: the Logos. Here, as in the famous opening of the Gospel of John—"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God"—language becomes an "active agent" that is actually prior to material reality.

One of God's greatest mercies is that he keeps us perpetually occluded.

One of God's greatest mercies is that he keeps us perpetually occluded.

but she knew about angels. St. Augustine had said, "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel.

If concentrating on the Divine or the universal in the form of a rock aids in preparing the mind for meditation, such a rock is a great dharma, a noble truth.

Genuine self-knowledge begins by looking at God and noticing how God is looking at us.

The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This is the self that dies on the journey. The self that arrives is the self that was loved into existence by Divine Love. This is the person we were destined from eternity to become—the I that is hidden in the "I AM.

If God has come in the flesh, and if God keeps coming to us in our fleshly existence, then all of life is shot through with meaning. Earth is crammed with heaven, and heaven (when we finally get there) will be crammed with earth. Nothing wasted. Nothing lost. Nothing secular. Nothing absurd.... All are grist for the mill of a downto-earth spirituality.

Richard Rohr reminds us that "we cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness.

Created from love, of love and for love, our existence makes no sense apart from Divine love.

But no mention is made of the fact that it was God they were thanking. . . .

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

we need to pray daily that we be granted the ability to see with the eyes of God, think with the mind of Christ, and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. Do those things, and you have

question the ways of the almighty God? To face God is to be humbled. With humility comes wisdom; with wisdom comes the strength to wait upon the Lord.

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Trust in the LORD, and do good. PSALM 37:3

We do not see into the world in which God lives, but He definitely sees into ours.

God is never early and never late.

Should it be ours to drain the cup of grieving, even to the dregs of pain, at thy command, we will not falter, thankfully receiving all that is given by thy loving hand. While all the powers of Good aid and attend us, boldly we'll face the future, be what it may. At even, and at morn, God will befriend us, and oh, most surely on each new year's day!6

3. Claim God's Promises of Protection