Quotes about Divine Partnership
Marriage is not that two people love each other so much that they can find God in each other, but that God loves them so much that they can discover each other as living reminders of God's presence.
— Henri Nouwen
When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
— Dallas Willard
The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
— Audrey Hepburn
We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.
— Marianne Williamson
Through collaborating with Me in all things, you allow My Life to merge with yours.
— Sarah Young
Work! work! and God will work with us!
— Mark Twain
Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian.
— Jerry Bridges
Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and as his peace with us is the same, however much our peace may be disturbed; so it is also with regard to our being in fellowship or partnership with him: it remains unalterably the same so far as God is concerned.
— George Muller
If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.
— Donald Whitney