Quotes about Divine

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.

God wished to humble his people. Therefore, Daniel here sets before us the providence and judgments of God, that we may not think Jerusalem to have been taken in violation of God's  promise to Abraham and his posterity.

The true knowledge of God is not only to know him as the maker of the world, but also to be persuaded that the world is directed by him, and further to know the nature of that direction.

Once we've concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly stoop to consider this life's miserable condition. And by such consideration we disentangle ourselves from excessive desire for this life, which— as has been said—is our natural inclination.

The Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.

The glory of God is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth!

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.