Quotes about Divine

God could have over-ruled every difficulty in your way, had he seen it expedient. But he is pleased to show you, that you depend not upon men—but upon himself; and that, notwithstanding your situation, may exclude you from some advantages in point of outward means. He who has begun a good work in you, is able to carry it on, in defiance of all seeming hindrances, and make all things (even those which have the most unfavorable appearances) work together for your good.

Let us chide our cold unfeeling hearts and pray for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to him who has thus loved us.

Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God.

The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.

People are God's preferred messengers, God's Plan A, because they alone carry his image.

In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.

Then MacDonald writes this insightful line: "that the same God who is in us, . . . also is all about us—inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.

But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.

The real view that we may have of Christ and His glory in this world comes through faith in the divine revelation of Scripture.

And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.9