Quotes about Divine

Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.

Our lives are lived well only when they are lived on the terms of their creation, with God loving and us being loved, with God making and us being made, with God revealing and us understanding, with God commanding and us responding.

Evil is always temporary. "The worst does not last." Nothing counter to God's justice has any eternity to it.

Under the image of the Trinity we discover that we do not know God by defining him but by being loved by him and loving in return.

Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.

The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.

Theologian Karl Rahner was once asked if he believed in miracles. His reply? 'I live on miracles—I couldn't make it through a day without them.' Still another name for it is mystery.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.