Quotes about Divine
We watched him go, stunned and confused. At least I did. What he said made sense in my old way of being. Sylous was an angel, sent with the word of God to the elect. He had to be.
— Ted Dekker
Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness and his wish that it should be shown?
— Julian of Norwich
It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
— Julian of Norwich
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
— Julian of Norwich
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
— Julian of Norwich
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
— Julian of Norwich
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
— Julian of Norwich
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.
— Julian of Norwich
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
— Julian of Norwich
the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
— Julian of Norwich
It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands...so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.
— Julian of Norwich
He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and to small, to low and to simple, to one and to other. And so meaneth He in that He saith: ALL MANNER OF THINGS shall be well. For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten.
— Julian of Norwich