Quotes about Divine

Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.

Divine grace is God acting in our life to accomplish what we cannot do on our own. It informs our being and actions and makes them effective in the wisdom and power of God. Hence, grace is not opposed to effort (our actions) but to earning (our attitude).

I realize that I will either allow my view of evil to determine my view of God and will cut him down accordingly, or I will allow my view of God to determine my view of the evil and will elevate him accordingly, accepting that nothing is beyond his power for good.

God seeks us. The basic nature of God is one of loving community.

The experience of a life without lack depends first and foremost upon the presence of God in our lives, because the source of this life is God himself.

Human initiative is not canceled by God redeeming us; it is heightened by immersion in the flow of God's life.

I don't believe God messes with our minds. He is not mean, and if he has something to say to me, he will say it.

Thoughts are where we make our first movements toward God and where the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

What is his load? It is to bring the reign of God into ordinary human life. That is why he came the way he did, lived the way he did and died the way he did. In the midst of a world of ordinary human life he was pulling the load of bringing the kingdom of God into ordinary human life. That was his message. And his message was to everyone.

We will never have the easy, unhesitating love of God that makes obedience to Jesus our natural response unless we are absolutely sure that it is good for us to be, and to be who we are. This means we must have no doubt that the path appointed for us by when and where and to whom we were born is good, and that nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God's full world.

The miracle is not that God loves me; it would be a miracle if he didn't love me, because he is love. That is God's basic nature—a will to good.

The Trinity is the model of life as it is intended to be in human existence, the basis for Christian community.