Quotes about Divine

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.