Quotes about Divine

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

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.

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.

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

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

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

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