Quotes about Divine
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
— Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
— Mark Batterson
But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.
— Mark Batterson
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
— Mark Batterson
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
— Mark Batterson
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
— Aristotle
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
— Aristotle
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....
— Soren Kierkegaard
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
— Soren Kierkegaard
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
— George Eliot
[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.
— George Weigel