Quotes about Divine

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Pray, and let God worry.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.