Quotes about Divine

The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

God uses language to create and command us.

The premise of the psalm for all work is that God works: "If GOD doesn't build the house... If GOD doesn't guard the city... " The condition if presupposes that God does work: he builds; he guards.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also.

For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.