Quotes About Divine

Let us chide our cold unfeeling hearts and pray for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to him who has thus loved us.

A blessing is not a sentiment or a question; it is a gracious invocation where the human heart pleads with the divine heart.

Meister Eckhart said that there is nothing in the world that resembles God so much as silence. Silence

The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.

People are God's preferred messengers, God's Plan A, because they alone carry his image.

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.

In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.

The real view that we may have of Christ and His glory in this world comes through faith in the divine revelation of Scripture.

And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.9

It is sufficient unto our present purpose that in and by these promises we are made partakers of the divine nature, and are therein endowed with a constant, habitual disposition and inclination unto all acts and duties of holiness; for our power followeth our love and inclinations, as impotency is a consequent of their defect.

What we cannot comprehend in things divine and infinite, as unto their own nature, that we are not to believe in their revelation.

Yet in these and the like distresses doth the word of God, by its divine power and efficacy, break through all interposing difficulties, all dark and discouraging circumstances, supporting, refreshing, and comforting such poor distressed sufferers, yea, commonly filling them under overwhelming calamities with "joy unspeakable and full of glory." Though

Faith is most satisfied and cherished with what is infinite and inconceivable, as resting absolutely in divine revelation.

Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of the divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh unto that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.

Wherefore, we do not nor ought only to believe the Scripture as highly probable, or with a moral persuasion and assurance, built upon arguments absolutely fallible and human; for if this be the formal reason of faith, namely, the veracity and authority of God, if we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

The Holy Spirit is said to be the divine, eternal, mutual love of the Father and the Son.

Our unction, therefore, is the communication of the Holy Spirit, and nothing else.

Wherefore, he is principally considered as a comforter : and, as we shall see farther afterward, this is his principal work, most suited unto his nature, as he is the Spirit of peace, love, and joy; for he who is the eternal, essential love of the Divine Being, as existing in the distinct persons of the Trinity, is most meet to communicate a sense of divine love, with delight and joy, unto the souls of believers.

This is that whereon we believe the Scripture to be the word of God with faith divine and supernatural, if we believe it so at all: There is in itself that evidence of its divine original, from the characters of divine excellencies left upon it by its author, the Holy Ghost, as faith quietly rests in and is resolved into; and this evidence is manifest unto the meanest and most unlearned, no less than unto the wisest philosopher.

The Spirit of God createth a new nature in us, which is the principle and next cause of all acts of the life of God.

God's work consists in universal obedience;