Quotes About Divine

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and

God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.

Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.

One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.

Y esto podemos decir sin temor a equivocarnos: que aquel por quien Dios hizo los mundos, no solo el gran mundo, sino el pequeño mundo del hombre, formó el cuerpo humano al principio según el modelo que diseñó para sí mismo en la plenitud del tiempo.

Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.

The office of the ministry is a divine institution, which does not lie open in common to all, but is confined to those only whom God has qualified for it and called to it: even reason itself directs us to put a difference between the teachers and the taught (for, if all were teachers, there would be none to be taught), and the scriptures sufficiently declare that it is the will of God we should do so.

We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.

We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law.

The times of the gospel are the last times, the gospel revelation is the last we are to expect from God.

The greatest sign of God's displeasure against any person or people is his taking his law from them.

It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration