 The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Creation |
| Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holiness, The Heart |
| May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Holy Spirit, Fire |
| There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Prayer |
| There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Trials |
| By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness. Author: A.T. Pierson
Topics: Faith, Redemption |
| Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Truth |
| Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: God |
| Troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Tribulation |
| Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Salvation, Choices |
| The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories. Author: Abraham Wright
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Meditation |
| "I will" is no word for man. There is a far diviner one, "I ought." Bow passion to reason, reason to conscience, and conscience to God, and then be as resolute and determined as you choose. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Perseverance |
| The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Providence |
| Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terrors the shining of one perhaps pale, quivering, distant, but divinely given hope, "My Saviour! My Saviour! He is righteous; He has died; He lives! I will stay no longer; I will cast myself upon Him! Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith |
| Oh! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we feel that not the apparent greatness, not the prominence nor noise with which it is done, nor the external consequences which flow from it, but the motive from which it flowed, determines the worth of our deed in God's eyes. Faithfulness is faithfulness, on whatsoever scale it be set forth. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faithful |
| The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Providence |
| True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid;" it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid." Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith |
| While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Renewal, Sanctification |
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Forgiveness |
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace.
- Brother Lawrence Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Grace |
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
- Ludwig von Beethoven Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Character |
To return good for good is human; to return evil for evil is brutal; to return evil for good is diabolical; but to return good for evil is Divine.
- Royard Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Good and Evil |
Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out of place.
- Nehemiah Adams Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: God |
| In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise. Author: B.B. Warfield
Topics: Providence |
| When the Christian asserts his faith in the divine origin of his Bible, he does not mean to deny that it was composed and written by men or that it was given by men to the world. He believes that the marks of its human origin are ineradicably stamped on every page of the whole volume. He means to state only that it is not merely human in its origin. Author: B.B. Warfield
Topics: The Bible |
| There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Drunkenness |
| Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Love |
| The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Justice |
| Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Love |
| The proximate result of obedience to God is inward conformity to the Divine image. Author: Charles Hodge
Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Eerdmans, 1955
Topics: Obedience |
| Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. Author: Charles Hodge
Topics: Authority |
| I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Heresy, Doctrine, Eternal Life |
| As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: A Christmas Question, Sermon #291, December 25, 1859.
Topics: God |
| God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Expiation, Sermon 561, Isa. 53:10.
Topics: Justice, Mercy |
| In Gods case, if He had said in the infinite sovereignty of His absolute will, "I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die," none could have murmured. It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, "I will accept of a substitute. There shall be a vicarious suffering; and My vengeance shall be content, and My mercy shall be gratified." Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Expiation, Sermon 561, Isa. 53:10.
Topics: Atonement |
| Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer, Peace |
| Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer |
| Rebellion against divine election is often founded on the idea that the sinner has a sort of right to be saved, and this is to deny the full desert of sin. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 24.302.
Topics: Rebellion |
| The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Church, Prayer |
| There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Doctrine |
| When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Indwelling Sin, Sermon from Job 40:3-4.
Topics: Salvation, The Heart |
| Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Habits |
| He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Love |
| See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail. Author: Charles Wesley
Topics: Holy Spirit, Christianity |
| You may suffer and yet be un-Christlike, but no man can be Christlike and fail to suffer. If you ever, by the grace of God, become a partaker of the divine nature you must also inevitably become a partaker of His sufferings. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Suffering |
| Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Holiness, Passion |
| When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Meditation, Prayer, Service |
| Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge. Author: David Brainerd
Source: Mr. Brainerd's Remains, consisting of Letters and Other Papers
Topics: Prayer, Meditation, Truth |
| The only Jesus that unbelievers ever see on this earth is the one reflected in those who already know Him. By mirroring Christ, we should be ready to turn any conversation or meeting with an unbeliever into a divine encounter. Author: David Jeremiah
Topics: Examples |
| All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. Author: David Livingstone
Topics: Scripture |
| How easy it is to live more or less in the enjoyment of God's free grace, and yet not realize that we are called to fulfill a divinely appointed purpose. Author: Duncan Campbell
Topics: Apathy |
| To look back upon the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activity just when the Church had fallen under the influence of the apathy of the times. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Revival |
| Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Authority, Submission |
| Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior. Author: Erwin Lutzer
Topics: Religion, Jesus |
| God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Life |
| There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! Author: Francis de Sales
Topics: Love |
| There will be no "knights in shining armor" in God's kingdom; our armor will have many dings and dents. No, no perfect Hollywood heroes will ride to save the day; just wearied saints to look to God and, in weakness, find Christ's strength. This, indeed, is the essence of God's kingdom: divine greatness manifest in common people. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Strength |
| That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success. Author: Francis Quarles
Topics: Thankfulness, Success |
| I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Achievement, Providence |
| Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps, at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Author: Frederick W. Faber
Topics: Faith |
| Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation. Author: Frederick W. Faber
Topics: Christianity |
| The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Prayer |
| Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Jesus |
| Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Humorous, Life |
| But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Friendship, Money |
| There's no sight like seeing the light from Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart with the assurance of Divine forgiveness. Author: Gipsy Smith
Topics: The Cross, Assurance |
| Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Holy Spirit, Freedom, Time |
| If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that there is always abiding with me a divine, all-seeing Comforter, who will reprove me for all my faults, and will not let me go on in a fatal unconsciousness of them. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Ignorance, Comfort, Discipline |
| A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Faith |
| The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast capacity for God. It is like a curious chamber added on to being, and somehow involving being, a chamber with elastic and contractile walls, which can be expanded, with God as its guest, illimitably, but which without God shrinks and shrivels until every vestige of the Divine is gone. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Holy Spirit |
| Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by supernatural law, for all law is Divine. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 46.
Topics: Religion |
| Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the disciples most. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 38.
Topics: Friendship |
| The best test for Life is just LIVING. And living consists, as we have formerly seen, in corresponding with Environment. Those therefore who find within themselves, and regularly exercise, the faculties for corresponding with the Divine Environment, may be said to live the Spiritual Life. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, p. 390.
Topics: Life |
| Suffering is part of the divine idea. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Suffering |
| Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Character |
| Free and warm reception into the divine favor is the strongest of all motives in leading a man to seek conformity to Him who has thus freely forgiven him all trespasses. Author: Horatius Bonar
Source: God's Way of Holiness.
Topics: Holiness |
| Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Charity, Zeal |
| In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon." Author: Hudson Taylor
Topics: Prayer, Faith, Fasting |
| How divinely full of glory and pleasure shall that hour be when all the millions of mankind that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet together and stand around Him, with every tongue and every heart full of joy and praise! How astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that day when all the saints shall join together in one common song of gratitude and love, and of everlasting thankfulness to this Redeemer! With that unknown delight, and inexpressible satisfaction, shall all that are saved from the ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was slain, and rejoice in His presence! Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Heaven, Joy, Thankfulness |
| To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Anger |
| Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty. acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours. Author: J.I. Packer
Topics: Humility, Wisdom |
| The impression of Jesus which the Gospels give is not so much one of deity reduced as of divine capacities restrained. Author: J.I. Packer
Topics: Jesus |
| All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Grace, Worship, Power |
| In the Church of Christ one little worker can mar the whole by failing to fulfill his office. There is a place for each. Find your place if you are not already in it, and obey the Saviour's command, "Go work in my vineyard" - the command of a king which you disobey at the peril of losing the reward of the faithful. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Service, Apathy, Rewards |
| Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Obedience, Service, Unity |
| The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Theology |
| In dwelling on divine mysteries, keep thy heart humble, thy thoughts reverent, thy soul holy. Let not philosophy be ashamed to be confuted, nor logic to be confounded, nor reason to be surpassed. What thou canst not prove, approve; what thou canst not comprehend, believe; what thou canst believe, admire and love and obey. So shall thine ignorance be satisfied in thy faith, and thy doubt be swallowed up in thy reverence, and thy faith be as influential as sight. Put out thine own candle, and then shaft thou see clearly the sun of righteousness. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Scripture, Doubt |
| All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Blessings, Service |
| Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Faith, Knowledge |
| Faith...is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence towards us, which being founded on the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ, is both revealed to our minds, and confirmed to our hearts, by the Holy Spirit. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Faith, Holy Spirit |
| There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Charity |
| Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Reasoning |
| Man is spiritually dead and does not originate in himself a movement toward God and spiritual life. It's supernatural, and it is a work of divine power. Spiritual renewal accordingly is a divine miracle in which that which was dead is now alive. Author: John F. Walvoord
Topics: Renewal |
| To achieve the divine purpose of becoming the Savior, the divine glory needed to be veiled. Christ voluntarily, moment by moment, submitted to human limitations apart from sin. The humiliation was temporary. The incarnation was everlasting. Author: John F. Walvoord
Topics: Salvation, The Cross |
| It means to preach the Bible in such a way, that the meaning of the Bible passage is presented entirely and exactly as it was intended by God. That's the challenge - the divine Word coming through the preacher. Author: John MacArthur
Topics: Preaching |
| Once a congregation sees Scripture as less than the final, complete, infallible authority for faith and practice, it has opened the doors to theological chaos. Anyone can claim to be speaking God's revelation - and almost anything can be passed off as divinely revealed truth. Author: John MacArthur
Topics: Scripture |
| There are basically only two kinds of religion in the world: those based on human achievement and those based on divine accomplishment. One says you can earn your way to heaven; the other says you must trust in Jesus Christ alone. Author: John MacArthur
Topics: Religion |
| In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim. Author: John Owen
Topics: Scripture |
| When He took on Him the form of a servant in our nature, He became what He had never been before, but He did not cease to be what He always had been in His divine nature. He who is God cannot ever cease to be God. Author: John Owen
Source: Meditation on the Glory of Christ, 1684, ch. 4.
Topics: God |
| Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men. Author: John Stott
Topics: Scripture |
