“The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.” WayNeedsTryingHumansFactsActionDivineFitMoralityStandardsLogicFilledScriptureSentimentsCategoriesClayPottersInexplicableStop TryingTidy Book:Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.” PeopleMayFactsUsedTermCreativeDivineAnxietyMadnessPaidGreekInsecuritySensitivityDistinguishedCreative PeopleHigh Prices Author:Rollo May
“The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.” HumansTwoFactsActionSidesJusticeDivineWorshipTraditionNeighborWitnessProphetBoresBiblicalLoving GodTwo SidesGreat Biblical Author:John Shelby Spong
“The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in the phrase ‘God created Man in his own image’. This ‘divine image’, the characteristics of which we must study in detail, can be found on all levels, and is the hallmark of a cosmos.” MenKindBookFactsFoundLevelsStudyDesignDivineParticularDetailsPhrasesCharacteristicsCosmosGenesisHallmarkTokensBook Of Genesis Author:Rodney Collin
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.” WorldIdeasFactsTodayEmotionDivineIllusionUnconsciousStrongestReligion Today Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.” HumansFactsMightFoundChurchDivineCatholicInstitutionsBoundsProofDivinityCatholic ChurchUnbelieversImbecilityFortnight Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.” MenWorldWayShouldHumansMeanFactsHelpingHandsChristianFacesPoliticalSocialVoiceChurchGreaterEconomicFashionDivineOrganizationBridgesAgencyPriestsDistrustDeitiesConsoleStand AloneNo FriendsSocial OrganizationFugue Author:Lionel Trilling
“This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.” IfsMenNeedsMindHeartSoulFactsSpiritualLove IsCreationDivineMessagesBibleEvidenceInfiniteSalvationMereMissionsMy SoulGuidanceNeglectVolumeHeart And MindNourishmentInfinite LoveSpiritual Nourishment Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.” DoeSoulFactsBodyForceFireDivineProveFollowingProofEndlessSurvivorResurrectionProve ItPhysical BodyNear DeathNear Death Experience Author:Caroline Myss
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsFirstsTwoDoneFactsHelpingOrderCoursesWishNaturalDivineMajorityHumanitarianPrimeAwkwardAssistancePositivelyProposeCompetentLives Of OthersNatural OrderGuillotine Author:Isabel Paterson