Quotes About Divine

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

Our self-forgetful gaze on God is immersed in God's self-emptying gaze on us, and in this mutual meeting we find rest.

Union with God is not something that needs to be acquired but realized.

In this connection was revealed one of the many verse which refer to the heart as the faculty by which man has sight of supernatural realities. The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But an evil way of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of God's message...

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Pray, and let God worry.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.