Quotes About Divine

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

Man cannot know God by his own wisdom and power, but only by God's self-disclosure, which he delivered through the prophets and the apostles.

God creates, sustains, and controls all things.

Jesus is saying that no one can have faith in him unless chosen and compelled by the Father.

not the human individuals themselves who chooses those who would come to Christ, it follows that it is the Father who chooses who would receive salvation, and not the human individuals themselves.

All human beings are creatures of God, but not all are his children – non-Christians are children of the devil (John 8:44).

Faith is not the cause of election, but election is the cause of faith.

We are saved because God chose us, not because we chose him.

Scripture is perfect, and Paul's analogy is perfect for its purpose. It illustrates that the divine potter has the right to fashion the human clay into any type of vessel and for any purpose he chooses, and the creature has no right to protest against the Creator.

since God has revealed himself through the Scripture, to know the Scripture is to know him, and this means to study theology.

God is the one who decides whether a person will have faith in Christ, since faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). A person who is spiritually dead cannot produce or exercise faith – God must first regenerate him.

Since divine sovereignty is absolute, divine judgment is therefore certain – because God is sovereign, there will be a judgment.

God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day'" (Romans 11:7-8).

Arminianism says that it is man who chooses whether he will accept Christ, but Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last" (John 15:16).

God is the only source and cause of knowledge.

If anyone were to discover truth and attain salvation, it must be by God's sovereign grace and effectual calling.

As long as a person denies that the Bible is itself divine revelation, it remains nothing more than an ordinary book, so that he would hesitate to offer it complete reverence, as if it is possible to excessively adore it.

I'm always inclined to believe that the best way of knowing [the divine] is to love a great deal. Love that friend, that person, that thing, whatever you like, you'll be on the right path to knowing more thoroughly, afterwards; that's what I say to myself. But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.

Cada vez mais eu acho que não se deve julgar o bom Deus a partir deste mundo daqui, pois este é um estudo seu que não deu certo.

Biri Rembrandt'? seviyor diyelim, ama ciddi seviyor, o kiÅŸi Tanr?'n?n var olduÄŸunu bilir ve derinden inan?r. Biri Frans?z Devrimi'nin tarihini inceliyor diyelim, o kiÅŸi imans?z olamaz, en büyük ÅŸeylerin gerisinde de tanr?sal bir erkin kendini gösterdiÄŸini anlar.

It seemed strange in a way. Only a little more than an hour before, I was about to be killed by a homicidal maniac. Now I was going out for pancakes. I recalled one of my mother's cherished sayings: God works in mysterious ways.