Quotes about Divine
If God wants to give you more than you are asking, would you rather have what you are asking or what God wants to give?
— Henry Blackaby
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
— Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
— Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
— Henry David Thoreau
So the role of the Holy Spirit is not to bring God's presence to the world, but to reveal it.
— Henry Blackaby
God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that. God himself must reveal it.
— Henry Blackaby
Biblically, God always gives the assignment first. Then God equips the person by the Holy Spirit to accomplish what He assigns.
— Henry Blackaby
Divine truth is not something we "discover;" it is revealed by the Holy Spirit of God. As such, no other reality in the Christian life is as important as being filled with the Spirit.
— Henry Blackaby
Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!
— Henry Blackaby
The willingness to obey every word from God is critical to hearing God speak.
— Henry Blackaby