Quotes about Divine

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

Many are called, few are chosen.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.

Neither the Ten Commandments nor the great commandment is revelatory if separated from the divine covenant with Israel or from the presence of the Kingdom of God in the Christ. These commandments were meant and should be taken as interpretations of a new reality, not as orders directed against the old reality. They are descriptions and not laws. ~ vol. 1, p.125

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

Heaven has its own doors that open, bringing blessings from God to earth.

We must remember that more is accomplished with the favor of God than with the favor of man.