Quotes about Divine

That divine presence explains the joy the Jews felt so passionately when they went to their temple and which we find expressed in their Psalms. If we don't have as much joy in our churches as they had, it can only be because we don't have as much faith and love toward that divine presence as they had. And yet we have the presence of the same God in an even more complete and more concrete form in Christ, who is God incarnate, fully divine and fully human.

Divine love is not humanity but neighbor, the concrete, unique individual. You can only ever love individuals, because only individuals ever exist. Classes and collections are abstract objects of thought, not concretely real things. We group people into groups, but real people are concrete individuals.

the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .

There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are.

There is no equality among angels

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father." Those are the only two options.

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

He is not the solution to our problems; He is the giver of our problems. Our problems are His tasks and our opportunities, His teaching and our education, His will and our sanctification.

When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.

we are participating in His actual work.