Quotes about Divine

God helps him who strives hard.

We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.

Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.

I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.

Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to us in this living Word.

God did not change his mind about us on account of the cross or on any other account. He did not need to have his mind changed. He was never opposed to us. It is not his opposition to us but our opposition to him that had to be overcome, and the only way it could be overcome was from God's side, by God's initiative, from inside human flesh — the human flesh of the Son. The divine hostility, or wrath of God, has always been an aspect of his love.

Christ's recapitulation of the human story does not simply invite us into the divine life. There is an objective reality about it; it has happened over our dead bodies, so to speak.

New Testament presents us with not two but three agencies: God, the human being, and an Enemy.

In other words, the new understanding imparted by the Bible comes from a source lying beyond our ability to frame questions.

Here is what Isaiah says: Verily thou art a God who hides thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior (45:15). God is still active, still living, still in charge, still the subject of the verb: God hides himself.' God is active even when hidden, even when seemingly absent.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.