Quotes about Divine

For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin.

The cause of things, therefore, which makes but is not made, is God; but all other causes both make and are made.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not.

For the steps of a man are ordered by the Lord, and He shall dispose his way.

Accordingly we say that there is no unchangeable good but the one, true, blessed God; that the things which He made are indeed good because from Him, yet mutable because made not out of Him, but out of nothing.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

Now God is in such sort a great worker in great things, that He is not less in little things,—for these little things are to be measured not by their own greatness (which does not exist), but by the wisdom of their Designer.

For my own part, indeed, as I dare not say that there ever was a time when the Lord God was not Lord, so I ought not to doubt that man had no existence before time, and was first created in time. But when I consider what God could be the Lord of, if there was not always some creature, I shrink from making any assertion, remembering my own insignificance.

O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having finished their courses, is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.