Quotes about Divine
John 6:44 looks at the matter from the Godward side and declares, quite rightly, that no one ever made the first move toward God. We come to God only because God draws us. On the other hand, as the texts about the open door show, God does not show favoritism. Anyone, regardless of who he or she is or where he or she comes from, may be among that number.
— James Montgomery Boice
The call of God is not restricted by anything you can imagine: race, education, social position, wealth, achievements, good deeds, the lack of them, or anything else. Therefore, there is no reason why you (whoever you are) should not be among the number of those whom God draws to Jesus.
— James Montgomery Boice
The call of God is not restricted by anything you can imagine: race, education, social position, wealth, achievements, good deeds, the lack of them, or anything else. Therefore, there is no reason why you (whoever you are) should not be among the number of those whom God draws to Jesus.
— James Montgomery Boice
Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
— Dorothy Sayers
We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
— Dorothy Sayers
If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.
— Dorothy Sayers
But if you believe that Jesus was wholly God, then to condemn His conduct is presumptuous. If you believe that He was not wholly God, but only partly or in some respects divine, you are a heretic. If you think He was not God at all, you are an infidel.
— Dorothy Sayers
The agents of the miraculous which the novelist has at his command are, roughly speaking, conversion and coincidence;
— Dorothy Sayers
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.
— Alan Redpath
When GOD wants to do an impossible task He takes an impossible man and crushes him.
— Alan Redpath
So often the providences of God seem to run completely counter to His promises, but only that He may test our faith, only that He may ultimately accomplish His purpose for our lives in a way that He could never do if the path were always smooth.
— Alan Redpath
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca