#divine

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. ↗

— William Ames

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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. ↗

— Empedocles

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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? ↗

— Sam Ervin

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I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#chaos #creation #divine-will #omnipotence #theology

I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

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There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally? ↗

— John Morton

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ↗

— Morris West

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