Quotes about Divine

With God in charge we don't have to be anxious or fear. He'll bring about what He needs to in order to accomplish His purposes. I'm just glad we're on His side.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.

For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.

The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come down, and, taking you in His Arms, will carry you to His Kingdom never again to leave Him. But should you cease to raise your foot, you will be left for long on the earth.

He has never inspired me with any desire and left it unsatisfied, and that is why I have always found His bitter chalice full of sweetness.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.

See how this evening the tree-tops are gilded by the setting sun. So likewise my soul appears to you all shining and golden because it is exposed to the rays of Love.

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.