Quotes about Divine

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.

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.