Quotes About Divine

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. —Woody Allen

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,Holy angels guard thy bed!Heavenly blessings without numberGently falling on thy head.

Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.

Were the whole realm of nature mine That were an offering far too small Love so amazing so divine Demands my soul my life my all

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids his awful chariot roll Far downward from the skies, To visit every humble soul, With pleasure in his eyes.

The Spirit is sent down to breathe On such dry bones as we. 6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; And justify'd by grace We shall appear in glory too, And see our Father's face.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

Hudson Taylor was right in his discovery: "Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.

Many Jews are convinced that the "oral law" is comprised of interpretations and additions to what is written in the Torah and that both were revealed by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

From mirror to mirror — this is what I happen to dream of — the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror. Or perhaps the knowledge of everything is buried in the soul, and a system of mirrors that would multiply my image would then reveal to me the soul of the universe, which is hidden in mine.

Mercury, god of the fickle, to whom the city is sacred, worked this ambiguous miracle.

For some time the augurs had been sure that the carpet's harmonious pattern was of divine origin. The oracle was interpreted in this sense, arousing no controversy. But you could, similarly, come to the opposite conclusion: that the true map of the uni-verse is the city of Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."