Quotes About Divine

God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable,

The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.

Surely in the case of Aristotle the immutability of the divine being was due to its emptiness and internal immobility. No greater contrast is thinkable between the unmoved noesis noeeseoos of Aristotle and the Christian God. This appears particularly from the fact that the Bible does not hesitate to attribute all manner of activity to God...Herein lies the glory of the Christian doctrine of God, that the unchangeable one is in control of the change of the universe.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...

I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work. He will give us to do.

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

God has plans—not problems—for our lives.

My life is but a weaving, between my God and me, I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily, Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side. Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver's hand, As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned. (Anonymous)

Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see." Every

I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. I

Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The

Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen—" But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!" T

There are no "ifs" in God's kingdom. I could hear her soft voice saying it. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.