Quotes about Divine

Always, no matter the circumstances, we have the assurance of "Immanuel," which simply means "God with us.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Anderson draws from the experience of Judas a key principle about prayer: "Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

A God wise enough to rule the universe is wise enough to watch over his child Job, regardless of how things seem in the bleakest moments.

God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

I leave in God's hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.