Quotes about Divine

Mammon led them on - Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven - for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy, else enjoyed In vision beatific.

Mustering their rage, and Heaven resembles Hell! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please?

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

God could have over-ruled every difficulty in your way, had he seen it expedient. But he is pleased to show you, that you depend not upon men—but upon himself; and that, notwithstanding your situation, may exclude you from some advantages in point of outward means. He who has begun a good work in you, is able to carry it on, in defiance of all seeming hindrances, and make all things (even those which have the most unfavorable appearances) work together for your good.

Let us chide our cold unfeeling hearts and pray for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to him who has thus loved us.

Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God.

The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.

People are God's preferred messengers, God's Plan A, because they alone carry his image.

In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.

Then MacDonald writes this insightful line: "that the same God who is in us, . . . also is all about us—inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.