People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.
Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.
Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it, we become spiritually aware of the wonder of the smallest things, which gladden our hearts with their messages of God's love. This grateful awareness heightens our sensitivity to divine direction. When we communicate gratitude, we can be filled with the Spirit and connected to those around us and the Lord. Gratitude inspires happiness and carries divine influence.
Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
Theology is the science of the divine lie.
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with Godthe Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
Politics are the divine science, after all.