Quotes about Divine

Every child born into the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is as new to him as it was to the first man that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.

Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honors to their deceased kings, and the christian world hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.