Quotes about Divine

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.

This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:

God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?

God may chastise, but He cannot hate.

They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing' (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.