Quotes about Divine

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

Whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.

This insolence was turned by the providence of God to a very different purpose; for the face of Christ, dishonored by spitting and blows, has restored to us that image which had been disfigured, and almost effaced, by sin.

We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrinth — a labyrinth to us inextricable, if the Word do not serve us as a thread to guide our path; and that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end.

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him.

Men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works.

However much the devil and wicked men may rage, however much they boil with their own unrestrained anger, there is no doubt that God checks and curbs their madness with a hidden bridle.