Quotes about Divine

Sleep in Peace, God is awake.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?

Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture his children and his grandchildren, and hear them cry without being tortured himself.

The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order