Quotes about Divine

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.

it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace.

City of God interprets all of the human story, from Creation to the Last Judgment, as the drama of divine providence and human free choice, especially the choice between the two most fundamental options of membership in one or the other of the two cities. The City of God is the invisible community of all who love God; the City of the World is all those who love the world and themselves as their God.

Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".

Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In

Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered.

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

That divine presence explains the joy the Jews felt so passionately when they went to their temple and which we find expressed in their Psalms. If we don't have as much joy in our churches as they had, it can only be because we don't have as much faith and love toward that divine presence as they had. And yet we have the presence of the same God in an even more complete and more concrete form in Christ, who is God incarnate, fully divine and fully human.

Divine love is not humanity but neighbor, the concrete, unique individual. You can only ever love individuals, because only individuals ever exist. Classes and collections are abstract objects of thought, not concretely real things. We group people into groups, but real people are concrete individuals.