Quotes about Divine

To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended. What did God intend? He intended that human beings should grow into such love for him and such confidence in him that they could rightly be called God's sons and daughters. Human

To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)

And isn't it true here too that those whom God blesses he damns in the same breath?

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.

Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.