Quotes about Divine

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

If you want to know how God feels about money, look at who she gives it to

God makes a way out of no way.

I'm not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of mercy anymore, the divine and the human; the messy, crippled, transforming, heartbreaking, lovely, devastating presence of mercy. But I have come to believe that I am starving to death for it, and my world is, too.

God's love is not the same as human love. [Our] love...is fraught with conditions, delusion, and judgment.

Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and trying to manipulate Him or Her into helping me with it, or with getting my toys fixed or any major discomfort to pass. But God is not a banker or a bean counter. God gives us even more, which is so subversive. God just gives, to us, to you and me. I mean, look at us! Yikes. God keeps giving, forgiving, and inviting us back.

when a heartbroken daughter of the King offers her pain and suffering to Christ, the enemy suffers a great defeat. Do we feel strong? No, we feel heartbroken. But when we enter into that divine exchange and take our sorrow to Christ, we become strong in His strength.

Our business, whatever comes, is to continue to believe and follow Jesus, certain that a divine blessing is coming our way. In the middle of the worst storm imaginable, we tie ourselves heart and soul to the mast of the truth of God's promise that disappointment will lead to hope. It's not that we won't hear the screeches of the enemy's lies in the night, but we will refuse to chart our course by them.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go.